AUSTRALASIAN, ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
Etymology: silver foot (Gr); Ta-III3–5 silvery
Type locality: Deli [East Coast], Sumatra [Indonesia]
Type depository: Type non-existent (NE)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (Vietnam)
Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 (Thailand)
Lee et al. 1987b (Australasian Region)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (Thailand)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) Myzorhynchus Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles argyropus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cambodia, India, Indonesia (includes Sumatra), Malaysia, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Swellengrebel 1914: 334 (F*; Myzorhynchus)
Christophers 1924a: 30 (as hyrcanus variety)
Edwards 1932a: 41 (as hyrcanus “aberration”)
Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)
Reid 1953: 36 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*; from “aberration”)
Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 (L; key; Thailand)
Harrison, B.A., Scanlon, J.E., & Reid, J.A. (1973)
Harrison & Klein 1975 (distribution)
Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 50 (M*, F*, P*, L*; distribution)
Lee et al. 1987b: 12 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
Whelan & Hapgood 2000 (bion, distribution; East Timor)
Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys)
Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)
Saeung et al. 2014 (E*)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Christophers, S.R. (1924a). Provisional list and reference catalogue of the Anophelini. Indian Medical Research Memoirs, 3, 1–105.
Edwards, F.W. (1932a). Diptera family Culicidae. In P. Wytsman (Ed.), Genera insectorum (194th Fascicule, pp. 1–258). Brussels, Belgium: Desmet-Verteneuil.
Harrison, B.A., Scanlon, J.E., & Reid, J.A. (1973). A new synonomy and new species name in the Southeast Asian Anopheles hyrcanus complex. Mosquito Systematics, 5(4), 263–268.
Harrison, B.A., & Klein, J.M. (1975). A revised list of the Anopheles of Cambodia. Mosquito Systematics, 7(1), 11–12.
Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies. II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), iv, 1–307.
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.
Nguyen Thuong Hien. (1968). The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam (Military Entomology Information Service, Trans.) Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/Republic of Vietnam.
Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.
Qu, F., & Zhu, H. (2008). On a checklist of the anopheline mosquitoes in China with rectification for some specific names. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 26(3), 210–216.
Rattanarithikul, R., & Harrison, B.A. (1973). An illustrated key to the Anopheles larvae of Thailand. US Army Medical Component, SEATO, Bangkok, Thailand.
Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Suppl. 2), 2.
Reid, J.A. (1953). The Anopheles hyrcanus group in South-East Asia. (Diptera: Culicidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 44(1), 5–76.
Saeung, A., Baimai, V., Thongsahuan, S., Otsuka, Y., Srisuka, W., Taai, K., . . . Choochote, W. (2014). Cytogenetic, cross-mating and molecular evidence of four cytological races of Anopheles crawfordi (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand and Cambodia. Comptes rendus biologies, 337(11), 625–634.
Swellengrebel, N.H. (1914). Een nieuwe Anopheline voor Deli. Myzorhynchus argyropus. n. sp. [eine neue Anopheline in Deli.]. Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië Batavia, 54, 334–338.
Whelan, P., & Hapgood, G. (2000). A mosquito survey of Dili, East Timor, and implications for disease control. Arbovirus Research in Australia, 8, 405–416.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles argyropus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/argyropus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
