NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [fluvial (L); native to Fluminense Region of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil]
Type locality: Itaperuna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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
All Anopheles fluminensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Root 1927d: 602 (M*, P*)
Corrêa & Ramos 1942: 47 (M*)
Deane, L.M. et al. 1946: 13 (F*)
Corrêa 1950b: 82 (L)
Lane 1953: 224 (M*, F*, P, L, E*)
Lounibos et al. 1997b (E*)
Bourke et al. 2018 (molecular taxonomy; as s.l.)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. holmbergi Del Ponte & Heredia
1945: 382 (M*, F, L*). Type locality: Corpus, San Ignacio, Misiones, Argentina (INM). References: Lane 1953: 224 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bourke, B.P., Conn, J.E., de Oliveira, T.M.P., Chaves, L.S.M., Bergo, E.S., Laporta, G.Z., & Sallum, M.A.M. (2018). Exploring malaria vector diversity on the Amazon Frontier. Malaria Journal, 17, 342.
Corrêa, R.R., & Ramos, A.S. (1942). Os anofelinos da região meridional do Estado de São Paulo. Arquivos de higiene e saúde pública, 7, 37–57.
Corrêa, R.R. (1950b). Alguns informes sôbre Anopheles (Arribalzagia) intermedius (Chagas, 1908), (Diptera, Culicidae). Arquivos de higiene e saúde pública (São Paulo), 14, 79–88.
Deane, L.M., Causey, O.R., & Deane, M.P. (1946). I. An illustrated key by adult female characteristics for the identification of thirty-five species of Anophelini, with notes on the malaria vectors (Diptera, Culicidae). In Studies on Brazilian anophelines from the northeast and Amazon regions (pp. 1–18). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Del Ponte, E., & Heredia, R.L. (1945). Anopheles (Anopheles) holmbergi n. sp. de Misiones (Argentina) (Diptera Culicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomólogica Argentina, 12(5), 382–386.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Lounibos, L.P., Duzak, D., Linley, J.R., & Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R. (1997b). Egg structures of Anopheles fluminensis and Anopheles shannoni. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 92(2), 221–232.
Root, F.M. (1927d). Studies on Brazilian mosquitoes. IV. Notes on some Brazilian species of Anopheles. American Journal of Hygiene, 7(5), 599–605.
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
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles fluminensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/fluminensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
