NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated
Type locality: Livingston, Guatemala.
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Beltrán-Aguilar et al. 2011
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Species - Mexico & Central America - Adult
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles apicimacula DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dyar & Knab 1906a: 136 (A)
Senevet 1931: 96 (P*)
Kumm 1941: 92 (E*)
Komp 1942: 55 (F*), 99 (P*, L*), 144 (M*)
Pelaez 1945: 74 (F*; key)
Cova García 1946: 45 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Stone & Knight 1956b: 214 (type info.)
Beltrán-Aguilar et al. 2011: 638 (M*, F*, P*, L*; tax., keys, distr.)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Beltrán-Aguilar, A., Ibáñez-Bernal, S., Mendoza-Palmero, F., Sandoval-Ruiz, C.A., & Hernández-Xoliot, R.A. (2011). Taxonomy and distribution of the anopheline mosquitoes in the state of Veracruz, Mexico (Diptera: Culicidae, Anophelinae). Acta zoologica Mexicana (n.s.), 27(3), 601–755.
Cova García, P. (1946). Notas sôbre los anofelinos de Venezuela y su identificacion. (CSP12/C1). Editorial Grafolit.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1906a). Diagnoses of new species of mosquitoes. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 19, 133–142.
Komp, W.H.W. (1942). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Caribbean Region. National Institute of Health Bulletin, 179. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
Kumm, H.W. (1941). The eggs of some Costa Rican anophelines. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 21(1), 91–102.
Pelaez, D. (1945). Anofelinos de México. Clave para la determinación de especies y subespecies basada en los caracteres de las hembras adultas. Ciencia, 6, 69–77.
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. (1931). Contribution à l’étude des nymphes d’anophelines (2e Memoire). Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 9(1), 17–112.
Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1956b). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. III. The genera Anopheles and Chagasia (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 46(9), 276–280.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles apicimacula species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/apicimacula, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
