INDOMALAYAN REGION
Etymology: white ankle (Gr); white hind tibia and hind tarsomere 1
Type locality: Kajoe Janam [sic = Kajoe Tanam [Kajutanam] north of Padang [Tapanuli], Sumatra [Indonesia]
Type depository: Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZM); 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
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neomyzomyia Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles leucosphyrus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia (Sumatra)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dönitz 1901: 37 (F)
Crawford 1938 (P*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 279 (M*, F*, L*)
Colless 1956: 55 (M, F*, P*, L*)
Colless 1957c: 133 (F, L in part; distribution; Sumatra)
Reid 1968: 386 (M*, F*, P*, L*; in part, distribution; Sumatra)
Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)
Ramalingam 1974 (distribution)
Baimai et al. 1988b (dirus sensu lato)
Peyton 1990 (1989): 197 (classification; Leucosphyrus Group)
Townsend 1990: 94 (type information)
Sallum et al. 2005: 6 (M, F*, P*, L*; distribution)
Sallum et al. 2007: 30 (phylogeny)
Sinka et al. 2011: 89 (bionomics, review, distribution, niche model)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.
Baimai, V., Harbach, R.E., & Sukowati, S. (1988b). Cytogenetic evidence for two species within the current concept of the malaria vector Anopheles leucosphyrus in southeast Asia. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 4(1), 44–50.
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Colless, D.H. (1956). The Anopheles leucosphyrus group. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 108(3), 37–116.
Colless, D.H. (1957c). Further notes on the systematics of the Anopheles leucosphyrus group (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London; Series B Taxonomy, 26(7–8), 131–139.
Crawford, R. (1938). Some anopheline pupae of Malaya with a note on pupal structure. Singapore: Government Printing Office.
Dönitz, W. (1901). Nachrichten aus dem Berliner Entomologischen Verein. Insekten-Börse, 18(5), 36–38.
Peyton, EL. (1990). A new classification for the Leucosphyrus group of Anopheles (Cellia). Mosquito Systematics, 21(for 1989)(3), 197–205.
Ramalingam, S. (1974). Some new records of Anopheles from Sabah, Malaysia. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 5(1), 147–148.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
Sallum, M.A.M., Foster, P.G., Li, C., Sithiprasasna, R., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2007). Phylogeny of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae) based on mitochondrial gene sequences. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 100(1), 27–35.
Sallum, M.A.M., Peyton, EL, Harrison, B.A., & Wilkerson, R.C. (2005b). Revision of the Leucosphyrus Group of Anopheles (Cellia) (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista Brasileira de entomología, 49(Suppl. 1), 1–152.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles leucosphyrus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/leucosphyrus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
