NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [thorn spoon (Gr); poss. ref. to spoon-shaped claspette ending in a terminal spine]
Type locality: Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington D.C., USA (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
Anopheles acanthotorynus COI: AF417760, AF417724
All Anopheles acanthotorynus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
French Guiana, Peru
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Komp 1937a: 358 (M*)
Senevet & Abonnenc 1940: 442 (M*, F)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Komp, W.H.W. (1937a). Anopheles acanthotorynus, a new species of the subgenus Stethomyia from Peru (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 30(2), 358–360.
Sallum, M.A.M., Obando, R.G., Carrejo, N. et al. Identification key to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasites and Vectors, 13, 542 (2020). https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/id-keys-anopheles
Senevet, G., & Abonnenc, E. (1940). Les moustiques de la Guyane Franҫaise. VI. Les anophelines. 2. Le sous-genre Stethomyia. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 18(4), 441–442.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles acanthotorynus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/acanthotorynus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
