AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: long snout (L); proboscis
Type locality: Boven-Digoel, [Western] New Guinea
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Lee et al. 1987b
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Australasia - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Australasia - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles longirostris DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Australia, Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Brug 1928a (F*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 305 (M*, F*, L*)
Peters 1962: 167 (P*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 232 (F; key, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
Beebe et al. 2013 (Longirostris Complex)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Beebe, N.W., Russell, T.L., Burkot, T.R., Lobo, N.F., & Cooper, R.D. (2013). The systematics and bionomics of malaria vectors in the Southwest Pacific. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 357–394). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
Bonne-Wepster, J., & Swellengrebel, N.H. (1953). The anopheline mosquitoes of the Indo-Australian Region. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: de Bussy.
Brug, S.L. (1928a). Anopheles (Neomyzomyia) longirostris n sp. (Diptera, Culicidae). Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië, 68, 278–279.
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.
Peters, W. (1962). Mosquitoes of New Guinea (Diptera: Culicidae). III. Some undescribed pupae of Anophelini and a revised pupal key. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 31, 163–169.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles longirostris species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/longirostris, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
