ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [shady (L); possibly in reference to darker (wings) appearance in comparison to barbirostris]
Type locality: [Pekan], Penhang [Pahang], Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (Vietnam)
Lee et al. 1987b: 104 (Australasian Region)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (Thailand)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1903a: 87 (F*; Myzorhynchus)
Christophers 1933: 162 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Crawford 1938: 67 (P*)
Ross & Roberts 1943b: 7 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Colless 1948: 91 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)
Reid 1950: 284 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 170 (M*, F*, L*)
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)
Reid 1968: 156 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)
Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 110 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 104 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys; Thailand)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. novumbrosus Strickland 1916b: 272 (A, L; Myzorhynchus). Type locality: Malaya [Malaysia] (LU). References: Colless 1948: 91 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.
Colless, D.H. (1948). The anopheline mosquitoes of north-west Borneo. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 73(3–4), 71–119.
Crawford, R. (1938). Some anopheline pupae of Malaya with a note on pupal structure. Singapore: Government Printing Office.
Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies. II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), 1–307.
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., . . . Marks, E.N. (1987b). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 5). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
Nguyen Thuong Hien. (1968). The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam (Military Entomology Information Service, Trans.). Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/Republic of Vietnam.
Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Suppl. 2), 2.
Reid, J.A. (1950). The Anopheles umbrosus group (Diptera: Culicidae). I: Systematics, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 101(9), 281–318.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
Ross, E.S., & Roberts, H.R. (1943b). Mosquito atlas. Part II. Eighteen old world anophelines important to malaria. Philadelphia: The American Entomological Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Strickland, C. (1916b). An umbrosus-like anopheline from Malaya— Myzorhynchus novumbrosus [sic]. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 4(2), 271–273.
Theobald, F.V. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles umbrosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/umbrosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
