AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: clothed foot (L); dark legs
Type locality: Berowra, New South Wales, Australia
Type depository: Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia (ANIC)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1987b (Australasian Region)
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles atratipes DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Australia
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Skuse 1889: 1755 (F)
Bancroft 1908: 12 (F; as genus Pyretophorus)
Lee & Woodhill 1944: 100 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid & Knight 1961: 477 (P*)
Dobrotworsky 1965: 45 (M*, F, L*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 16 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review, type information)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bancroft, T.L. (1908). List of the mosquitoes of Queensland, with the original descriptions and notes on the life-history of a number. Annals of the Queensland Museum, 8, 1–64.
Dobrotworsky, N.V. (1965). The mosquitoes of Victoria (Diptera, Culicidae). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Lee, D.J., & Woodhill, A.R. (1944). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Australasian Region (Vol. 2). Australia: University of Sydney.
Lee, D.J., Dyce, A.L., & O’Gower, A.K. (1957). Blood-sucking flies (Diptera) and myxomatosis transmission in a mountain environment in New South Wales. Australian Journal of Zoology, 5(4), 355–401.
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.
Reid, J.A., & Knight, K.L. (1961). Classification within the subgenus Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 55(4), 474–488.
Skuse, F.A.A. (1889). Diptera of Australia. Part V. The Culicidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 3, 1717–1764.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles atratipes species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/atratipes, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
