NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: spotted tibia (L); ref. to apical 0.25 of hind tibia with a very characteristic white spot
Type locality: Oliveira, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Type depository: Location unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Neiva 1906: 288 (F; I)
Galvão & Barretto 1941: 67 (from syn. with eiseni)
Coutinho & Farias 1942 (M; taxonomy)
Lane 1953: 175 (M*; F*)
Belkin et al. 1971: 4 (type information; taxonomy)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Belkin, J.N. (1971a). Mosquito types in East Germany. Mosquito Systematics Newsletter, 3(2), 31.
Coutinho, J.O., & Farias, G.S. (1942). Anopheles (Ayrozamyia) tibiamaculatus (Neiva, 1906)—descrição do macho e criação de novo subgênero (Diptera, Culicidae). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 14(4), 343–348.
Galvão, A.L.A., & Barretto, M.P. (1941). Sobre um novo anofelino de São Paulo, Anopheles (Anopheles) pseudotibiamacuIatus n. sp. (Diptera, Culicidae). Revista de biologia e higiene, 11(2), 65–70.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Neiva, A. (1906). Uma nova espécie de anophelina braziliera. Brazil-Medico, 20, 288–289.
Sallum, M.A.M., Obando, R.G., Carrejo, N. et al. Identification key to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasites and Vectors, 13, 542 (2020). https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/id-keys-anopheles
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles tibiamaculatus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/tibiamaculatus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
