ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Asian
Type locality: Ampang Jungle, near Kuala Lumpur [Selangor], Malaya [Malaysia]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 (Thailand)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (Thailand)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles asiaticus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Malaysia, Thailand
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leicester 1903: 291 (A)
Theobald 1904c: 13 (M, F)
Strickland 1914 (L*; bionomics)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 156 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid & Knight 1961: 477 (P*)
Reid 1968: 196 (M, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Rattanarithikul & Harrison 1973 (L*; key; Thailand)
Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 136 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys; Thailand)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
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., & 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.
Leicester, G.F. (1903). A breeding place of certain forest mosquitoes in Malaya. Journal of Tropical Medicine, 6, 291–292.
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., & Knight, K.L. (1961). Classification within the subgenus Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 55(4), 474–488.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
Strickland, C. (1914). Short description of the larva of Lophoscelomyia asiatica Leicester, 1905, and notes on the species. Parasitology, 7(1), 12–16.
Theobald, F.V. (1904c). New Culicidae from the Federated Malay States. The Entomologist, 37(488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496), 12–15, 36–39, 77–78, 111–113, 163–165, 211–213, 236–239.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles asiaticus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/asiaticus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
