ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
Etymology: snowy foot (L); white leg markings
Type locality: Kuala Lumpur [Selangor], Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Thailand, Vietnam.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1903f: 258 (M; Nyssorhynchus)
Reid 1967: 175 (M*, P*, L*; from synonymy)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)
Harrison et al. 1991 (1990): 223 (distribution; Thailand)
Darsie et al. 1996 (distribution; Nepal)
Subbarao et al. 2000: 71 (distribution; India)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys)
Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)
Morgan et al. 2009 (molecular phyl; Neocellia Series)
Namgay et al. 2018 (bion, distribution; Bhutan)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
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., Courtney, G.W., & Pradhan, S.P. (1996). Notes on the mosquitoes of Nepal. IV. Results of the 1994 collecting in the midwestern region, including new country records and voucher confirmation (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 12(1), 130–134.
Harrison, B.A., Rattanarithikul, R., Peyton, EL, & Mongkolpanya, K. (1991). Taxonomic changes, revised occurrence records and notes on the Culicidae of Thailand and neighboring countries. Mosquito Systematics, 22(for 1990)(3), 196–227.
Morgan, K., O’Loughlin, S.M., Mun-Yik, F., Linton, Y.-M., Somboon, P., Min, S., . . . Walton, C. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neocellia Series of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Oriental Region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 588–601.
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.
Qu, F., & Zhu, H. (2008). On a checklist of the anopheline mosquitoes in China with rectification for some specific names. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 26(3), 210–216.
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. (1967). Two forms of Anopheles philippinensis in Malaya. Journal of Medical Entomology, 4(2), 175–179.
Subbarao, S.K., Kumar, K.V., Nanda, N., Nagpal, B.N., Dev, V.,& Sharma, V.P. (2000). Cytotaxonomic evidence for the presence of Anopheles nivipes in India. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 16(2), 71–74.
Theobald, F.V. (1903f). New Culicidae from the Federated Malay States. The Entomologist, 36(485), 256–259.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles nivipes species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/nivipes, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
