Anopheles amictus Edwards, 1921

AUSTRALASIAN REGION

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Genus
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Etymology: unmixed, pure (Gr); contrast to annulipes.

Type locality: Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles amictus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Australia, Indonesia.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1921c: 71 (M, F)

Lee & Woodhill 1944: 152 (M*, F*, L*, E*)

Colless 1976 (taxonomy)

Lee et al. 1987b: 121 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Colless, D.H. (1976). Anopheles amictus Edwards and the subspecies concept. Mosquito Systematics, 8(3), 221–222.

Edwards, F.W. (1921c). Mosquito notes. II. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 12(1), 69–80.

Lee, D.J., & Woodhill, A.R. (1944). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Australasian Region (Vol. 2). Australia: University of Sydney.

Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Griffiths, M., Debenham, M.L., Bryan, J.H., Russell, R.C., . . . Marks, E.N. (1987b). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 5). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles amictus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/amictus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].