Anopheles oiketorakras Osorno-Mesa, 1947

NEOTROPICAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus

 

Etymology: inhabitant of a mountaintop (Gr).

Type locality: Bogotá [Cundinamarca], Colombia

Type depositoryU.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Sallum, et al. 2020

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Colombia.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Osorno-Mesa 1947: 431 (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Stone & Knight 1956b: 279 (type information, lectotype designation)

Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Osorno-Mesa, E. (1947). Una nueva especie de Anopheles de Bogotá Colombia. Caldasia, 4, 431–446.

Sallum, M.A.M., Obando, R.G., Carrejo, N. et al. Identification key to the Anopheles mosquitoes of South America (Diptera: Culicidae). Parasites and Vectors, 13, 542 (2020). https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/id-keys-anopheles 

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles oiketorakras species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/oiketorakras, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].