AUSTRALASIAN REGION
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 - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles amictus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Australia, Indonesia.
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].
