NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: salt loving (Gr); larval habitat.
Type locality: Salobra (20°12'40''S, 56°29'30''W), Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Type depository: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IOC)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Brazil.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Silva-do-Nascimento & Lourenço-de-Oliveira 2002: 801 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Silva-do-Nascimento et al. 2006 (molecular taxonomy)
Silva-do-Nascimento et al. 2011 (molecular taxonomy; s.l.)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
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
Silva-do-Nascimento, T.F., & Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R. (2002). Anopheles halophylus, a new species of the subgenus Nyssorhynchus (Diptera: Culicidae) from Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 97(6), 801–811.
Silva-do-Nascimento, T.F., Rona Pitaluga, L.D., Peixoto, A.A., & Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R. (2011). Molecular divergence in the timeless and cpr genes among three sympatric cryptic species of the Anopheles triannulatus complex. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 222 (Suppl. 1), 1.
Silva-do-Nascimento, T.F., Wilkerson, R.C., Lourenço-de-Oliveira, R., & Monteiro, F.A. (2006). Molecular confirmation of the specific status of Anopheles halophylus (Diptera: Culicidae) and evidence of a new cryptic species within An. triannulatus in Central Brazil. Journal of Medical Entomology, 43(3), 455–459.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles halophylus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/halophylus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
