AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: not stated [unknown (L); poss. ref. to “description of a hitherto unknown Anopheline larva” (English translation)]
Type locality: Merauke, Western New Guinea (Papua)
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
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 incognitus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Indonesia (West Papua), Papua New Guinea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Brug 1931b: 136 (L*)
Bonne-Wepster & Swellengrebel 1953: 331 (L*)
Lee et al. 1987b: 209 (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.
Brug, S.L. (1931b). Anopheles incognitus n. sp. Geneeskundig tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië, 71(2), 136–137.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles incognitus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/incognitus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
