NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [warlike, warrior (L)].
Type locality: Trinidad [Trinidad & Tobago]
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dyar & Knab 1906b: 160 (A)
Anduze 1942b: 435 (F*)
Komp 1942: 75 (F*), 127 (L), 164 (M*)
Rozeboom 1942a: 242 (E*)
Ross & Roberts 1943a: 37 (M*, F*, L*)
Pittendrigh 1950a, 1950b (bionomics)
Stone & Knight 1956b: 276 (type information, lectotype designation)
Zavortink 1973: 26 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Forattini & Marucci 1993 (E*)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. bromelicola Dyar
1925c: 27 (F; as race). Type locality: Manoa, Orinoco River, Venezuela (USNM). References: Stone & Knight 1956b: 276 (type information, lectotype designation).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Anduze, P.J. (1942b). Sobre la morfología de la armadura bucofaríngea de algunos representantes Venezolanos del subgénero Kerteszia (Diptera: Culicidae). Revista Venezolana de sanidad y asistencia social, 6, 435–436.
Dyar, H.G. (1925c). Note on bromelicolous Anopheles (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 13, 25–27.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1906b). Notes on some American mosquitoes with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 19, 159–172.
Forattini, O.P., & Marucci, D. (1993). Scanning electron-microscopy of the eggs of two species of Anopheles (Kerteszia) (Diptera, Culicidae). Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 88(3), 349–352.
Komp, W.H.W. (1942). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Caribbean Region. National Institute of Health Bulletin, 179. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office.
Pittendrigh, C.S. (1950a). The ecoclimatic divergence of Anopheles bellator and A. homunculus. Evolution, 4(1), 43–63.
Ross, E.S., & Roberts, H.R. (1943a). Mosquito atlas. Part I. The Nearctic Anopheles, important malaria vectors of the Americas, and Aëdes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus. Philadelphia: The American Entomological Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Rozeboom, L.E. (1942a). Subspecific variations among Neotropical Anopheles mosquitoes, and their importance in the transmission of malaria. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 22(3), 235–255.
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
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.
Zavortink, T.J. (1973). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). XXIX. A review of the subgenus Kerteszia of Anopheles. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 9(3), 1–54.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles bellator species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/bellator, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
