ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS
Etymology: shining, bright (L); well-defined wing pattern
Type locality: Selangor, Malaysia
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Thailand, Vietnam
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Harrison, Scanlon & Reid 1973: 266 (A)
Harrison & Scanlon 1975: 58 (M*, F*, P*, L*; distribution)
Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)
Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys)
Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)
Saeung et al. 2014 (E*)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Harrison, B.A., & Scanlon, J.E. (1975). Medical entomology studies. II. The subgenus Anopheles in Thailand (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 12(1), 1–307.
Harrison, B.A., Scanlon, J.E., & Reid, J.A. (1973). A new synonymy and new species name in the Southeast Asian Anopheles hyrcanus complex. Mosquito Systematics, 5(4), 263–268.
Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.
Qu, F., & Zhu, H. (2008). On a checklist of the anopheline mosquitoes in China with rectification for some specific names. Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, 26(3), 210–216.
Rattanarithikul, R., Harrison, B.A., Harbach, R.E., Panthusiri, P., & Coleman, R.E. (2006b). Illustrated keys to the mosquitoes of Thailand. IV. Anopheles. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 128(Suppl. 2), 2.
Saeung, A., Baimai, V., Thongsahuan, S., Otsuka, Y., Srisuka, W., Taai, K., . . . Choochote, W. (2014). Cytogenetic, cross-mating and molecular evidence of four cytological races of Anopheles crawfordi (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand and Cambodia. Comptes rendus biologies, 337(11), 625–634.
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Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles nitidus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/nitidus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
