Anopheles benguetensis King, 1931

INDOMALAYAN REGION

Family
Subfamily
Tribe
Genus
Subgenus
Complex

 

Etymology: Baguio, Benguet Subprovince, Luzon, Philippines

Type locality: Baguio, Benguet Subprovince, Luzon, Philippines

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Cagampang-Ramos & Darsie 1970

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 – Eastern Palearctic – Adult

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WRBU – Genera – Eastern Palearctic – Larva

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WRBU – Genera – Oriental – Adult

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WRBU – Genera – Oriental – Larva

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WRBU – Anopheles – Subgenera and Series – Oriental – Adult

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WRBU – Anopheles – Subgenera and Series – Oriental – Larva

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Philippines.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

King, 1931: 753 (M*, F*, L*; as var.)

Puri 1949: 485 (to ssp.)

Cagampang-Ramos & Darsie 1970 (F*, L*; keys)

Wanson & Berteaux 1954: 33 (L*; as mortiauxi)

Basio 1971b: 36 (M*, F*; bionomics)

Namgay, et al 2020 (to sp.)

 

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Basio, R.G. (1971b). The Mosquito Fauna of the Philippines (Diptera Culicidae). Monograph No. 4. Manila, Philippines: National Museum of the Philippines.

Cagampang-Ramos, A., & Darsie, R.F., Jr. (1970). Illustrated keys to the Anopheles mosquitoes of the Philippine Islands. US Air Force 5th Epidemiology Flight, PACAF, Technical Report 70-1, 1–49.

King, W.V. (1931). The Philippine varieties of Anopheles gigas and Anopheles lindesayi. Philippine Journal of Science, 46(4), 751–757.

Namgay, R., Pemo, D., Wangdi, T., Phanitchakun, T., Harbach, R. E., & Somboon, P. (2020). Molecular and morphological evidence for sibling species within Anopheles (Anopheles) lindesayi Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta Tropica, 207, 105455.

Puri, I.M. (1949). Anophelines of the Oriental Region. In M.F. Boyd (Ed.), Malariology: A comprehensive survey of all aspects of this group of diseases from a global standpoint, by 65 contributors. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.

Wanson, M., & Berteaux, M. (1954). La larve de l’Anopheles mortiauxi Edwards. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 49, 33–38.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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