ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: Nilgiri Hills, Madras, India
Type locality: [Nilgiri Hills, Madras], India
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (Nepal)
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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
India
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Christophers 1924b: 13 (A; as variety)
Christophers 1933: 129 (M*, F*, L)
Puri 1949: 485 (to subspecies)
Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)
Harrison et al. 1991 (1990): 199 (from subspecies of lindesayi)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Christophers, S.R. (1924b). Some Himalayan and peninsular varieties of Indian species of Anopheles. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 12(1), 11–13.
Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.
Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.
Harrison, B.A., Rattanarithikul, R., Peyton, EL, & Mongkolpanya, K. (1991). Taxonomic changes, revised occurrence records and notes on the Culicidae of Thailand and neighboring countries. Mosquito Systematics, 22(for 1990)(3), 196–227.
Puri, I.M. (1949). Anophelines of the Oriental Region. In M.F. Boyd (Ed.), Malariology: A comprehensive survey of all aspects of this group of diseases from a global standpoint, by 65 contributors. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles nilgiricus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/nilgiricus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
