AUSTRALIASIAN, ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
Etymology: roving, wandering (L); in reference to its wide distribution.
Type locality: Fort de Kock [West Coast], Sumatra, Banjoe-Biroe, Java, and numerous other Indonesian localities
Type depository: Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (Vietnam)
Lee et al. 1987b: 308 (Australasia)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (Nepal)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (Thailand)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - 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 (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Pyretophorus Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles vagus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Guam, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mariana Isl., Myanmar, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dönitz 1902: 80 (M*, F*)
Christophers & Barraud 1931: 175 (E*)
Christophers 1933: 241 (M*, F*, P, L*, E)
Crawford 1938: 106 (P*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 425 (M*, F*, L*)
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)
Reid 1968: 242 (distribution)
Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)
Basio 1971b: 46 (M*; bionomics)
Darsie & Cagampang-Ramos 1971a: 399 (distribution)
Darsie & Cagampang-Ramos 1971b: 28 (distribution)
Ameen & Talukdar 1974c: 88 (P*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 308 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; tax., keys, biononomics, distribution; Nepal)
Oo et al. 2004 (distr.; Myanmar)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys; Thailand)
Rueda et al. 2008: 397 (distribution)
Zarowiecki et al. 2011 (distribution, phylogeogeography)
Namgay et al. 2018 (bionomics, distribution; Bhutan)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. immaculata James
1902: 35 (A). Type locality: Ennur, Madras, India (NHMUK).
syn. immaculatus Theobald
1903a: 23 (F). Type locality: "Evidently from Goa, India" (NHMUK; same type as for immaculata James). References: Christophers 1933: 241 (taxonomy).
syn. flava Swellengrebel
1917a: 807 (M, F; Myzomyia indefinita variety; not Ludlow 1908). Type locality: Soerabaia, Java [Indonesia] (NHMUK).
syn. flavescens Swellengrebel
1921: 47 (F; Myzomyia). Type locality: Soerabaia, Java [Indonesia] (NE). References: Christophers 1933: 245 (? = sundaicus Rodenwaldt); Reid 1968: 347 (synonymy).
syn. albino Stoker & Waktoedi Koesoemawinangoen
1949: 26 (A*). Type locality: Indonesia (LU). References: Reid 1968: 342 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Ameen, M.-U., & Talukdar, M.Z.I. (1974c). Pupal chaetotaxy of the common mosquitoes of Dacca. Beiträge zur Entomologie, 24(1, 4), 87–95.
Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.
Basio, R.G. (1971b). The Mosquito Fauna of the Philippines (Diptera Culicidae). Monograph No. 4. Manila, Philippines: National Museum of the Philippines.
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.
Christophers, S.R. & Barraud, P.J. (1931). The eggs of Indian Anopheles, with descriptions of the hitherto undescribed eggs in a number of species. Records of the Malaria Survey of India, 2(1), 161-192.
Crawford, R. (1938). Some anopheline pupae of Malaya with a note on pupal structure. Singapore: Government Printing Office.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Cagampang-Ramos, A. (1971a). A subspecies of Anopheles new to the Philippine Islands (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 73(4), 399–400.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Cagampang-Ramos, A. (1971b). Additional species of Anopheles on Guam. Mosquito Systematics Newsletter, 3(2), 28–30.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1991). The mosquitoes of Nepal their identification, distribution and biology. Index and corrigendum. Mosquito Systematics, 23(1), 46–49.
Dönitz, W. (1902). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Anopheles. Zeitschrift für Hygiene, 41, 15–88.
James, S.P. (1902). Malaria in India: Scientific Memoirs by officers of the Medical and Sanitary Department of the government of India (New Series No. 2). Calcutta, India: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
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.
Ludlow, C.S. (1908b). The mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands. The distribution of certain species, and their occurrence in relation to the incidence of certain diseases [Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC].
Namgay, R., Drukpa, T., Wangdi, T., Pemo, D., Harbach, R.E., & Somboon, P. (2018). A checklist of the Anopheles mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta Tropica, 188, 206–212.
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.
Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.
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. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31.
Rueda, L.M., Pecor, J.E., Lowen., R. G., & Carder, M. (2008). New record and updated checklist of the mosquitoes of Afghanistan and Iraq. Journal of Vector Ecology, 3(2), 397–402.
Stoker, W.J., & Waktoedi Koesoemawinangoen, R. (1949). Illustrated map of the anopheline imagines of Indonesia [English trans.]. Djakarta, Indonesia: Ministry of Health.
Swellengrebel, N.H. (1917). Myzomyia flava n.sp., een nieuwe Anopheline voor Ned.-Indië. Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië Batavia, 57, 807–809.
Swellengrebel, N.H. (1921). Die anophelien van Nederlandsch Oost-Indië. Koloniaal Instituut Amsterdam Mededeeling No. XV. Afdeeling Tropische Hygiene, 10(15), 1–155.
Theobald, F.V. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Zarowiecki, M., Walton, C., Torres, E., McAlister, E., Htun, P.T., Sumrandee, C., . . . Linton, Y.-M. (2011). Pleistocene genetic connectivity in a widespread, open-habitat-adapted mosquito in the Indo-Oriental region. Journal of Biogeography, 38(7), 1422–1432.
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