PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: William Figures Lewis
Type locality: Selenga, Verkne, Udinsk, Siberia [USSR]
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles lewisi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Japan, Russia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Ludlow 1920b: 74 (M, F)
Aitken 1945: 308 (M, F; preoccupies messeae?)
Stone & Knight 1956b: 278 (type information)
Stone et al. 1959: 22 (to species)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. selengensis
Ludlow 1920b: 77 (F). Type locality: Selenga, Siberia [USSR] (LU). References: Aitken 1945: 308 (synonymy); Stone & Knight 1956b: 279 (type information, lectotype designation)
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Aitken, T.H.G. (1945). Studies on the anopheline complex of western America. University of California Publications in Entomology, 7(11), 273–354.
Ludlow, C.S. (1920b). Siberian Anopheles. Psyche, 27(4), 74–78.
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.
Stone, A., Knight, K.L., & Starcke, H. (1959). A synoptic catalog of the mosquitoes of the world (Diptera, Culicidae) (Vol. 6). Washington, DC: Thomas Say Foundation, Entomological Society of America.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles lewisi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/lewisi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
