AUSTRALASIAN & ORIENTAL REGIONS
Etymology: short feeler (L); short palpus
Type locality: Membakut Swamp, North Borneo, [Malaysian] Borneo
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1987b
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 brevipalpis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia, Malaysia (Borneo).
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Roper 1914: 141 (M*, F*)
Strickland 1915 (L, E)
Reid 1950: 304 (M, F, P*, L*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 119 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid 1968: 169 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 51 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
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.
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. (1950). The Anopheles umbrosus group (Diptera: Culicidae). I: Systematics, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 101(9), 281–318.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.
Roper, R. (1914). An account of some anopheline mosquitos found in British North Borneo, with description of a new species. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 5(2), 137–147.
Strickland, E.H. (1915). Note on Anopheles brevipalpis Roper, and description of its egg and larva. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 3(1), 201–204.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles brevipalpis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/brevipalpis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
