ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Ahom tribe, Assam, India
Type locality: Assam, India
Type depository: Location unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Reid 1968 (SE Asia)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (Nepal)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
India, Nepal
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Chowdhury 1929: 986 (M, L*; as barbirostris variety)
Christophers 1933: 161 (taxonomy)
Reid 1962: 37 (to species, distribution)
Reid 1968: 120 (key; SE Asia)
Pasahan 1974 (chromosomes*)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Chowdhury, K.L. (1929). A new variety of protanopheline, A. barbirostris van der Wulp, var. ahomi, found in Upper Assam. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 16(4), 986–988.
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.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.
Pasahan, S. C. (1974). The Salivary Chromosomes of Anopheles barbirostris var. ahomi. Cytologia, 39(1), 41-47.
Reid, J.A. (1962). The Anopheles barbirostris group (Diptera, Culicidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 53(1), 1–57.
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 ahomi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ahomi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
