ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Dr. Watson
Type locality: Near Klang [Selangor], Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles watsonii DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Malaysia
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leicester 1908: 38 (F; Pyretophorus)
Christophers 1923b (F*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 262 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid 1968: 270 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Christophers, S.R. (1923b). An Anopheles of the Myzorhynchus group (Anopheles amazonicus sp. n.) from South America. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 17(1), 71–78.
Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.
Kyalo, D., Amratia, P., Mundia, C.W., Mbogo, C.M., Coetzee, M., & Snow, R.W. (2017). A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898–2016. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 57.
Leicester, G.F. (1908). The Culicidae of Malaya. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, Federated Malay States, 3(3), 18–261.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles watsonii species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/watsonii, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
