Anopheles ahomi Chowdhury, 1929

ORIENTAL REGION

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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 LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult

larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

larval key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

larval key icon

WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles ahomi DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

India, Nepal

Distribution

 

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].