NEOTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Antonio Gonçalves Peryassú
Type locality: Margens do Rio Bicudo, Minas Gerais, Brazil; suburbs of Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil; Carmo, Rio Branco, Amazonas, Brazil
Type depository: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (IOC); Location Unknown (LU); U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Deane, L.M. et al. 1946 (NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Causey et al. 1946 (NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Deane, M.P. et al. 1946 (NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Sallum, et al. 2020
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dyar & Knab 1908: 53 (new name for lutzi Cruz, not Cruz 1901)
Bonne 1923b (E*; as mediopunctatus)
Shannon & Davis 1930: 481 (M*, F*, P*, L*; taxonomy)
Causey et al. 1944: 4 (E*)
Deane, L.M. et al. 1946 (F*; key, bionomics; NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Causey et al. 1946 (M*; key; NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Deane, M.P. et al. 1946 (L*; key, bionomics; NE Brazil & Amazonas)
Lane 1953: 183 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Linley & Lounibos 1994: 25 (E*)
Berti et al. 2015 (distribution; Venezuela)
Bourke et al. 2018 (molecular taxonomy; as s.l.)
Sallum, et al. 2020 (keys F, M, L)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. lutzi Cruz
1907a (F; Manguinhosia). Type locality: Margens do Rio Bicudo, Minas Gerais, Brazil (IOC?). References: Belkin et al. 1971: 3 (taxonomy).
syn. alagoanii Peryassú
1925: 258 (M, F). Type locality: suburbs of Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil (LU).
syn. celidopus Dyar & Shannon
1925b: 41 (F). Type locality: Carmo, Rio Branco, Amazonas, Brazil (USNM).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Berti, J., Guzmán, H., Estrada, Y., & Ramírez, R. (2015). New records of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) from Bolívar State in South Eastern Venezuela, with 27 new species for the state and 5 of them new in the country. Frontiers in Public Health, 2, 10.
Bonne, C. (1923b). The eggs of Anopheles mediopunctatus Theobald. Tijdschrift voor entomologie, 66, 118.
Bourke, B.P., Conn, J.E., de Oliveira, T.M.P., Chaves, L.S.M., Bergo, E.S., Laporta, G.Z., & Sallum, M.A.M. (2018). Exploring malaria vector diversity on the Amazon Frontier. Malaria Journal, 17, 342.
Causey, O.R., Deane, L.M., & Deane, M.P. (1944). An illustrated key to the eggs of thirty species of Brazilian anophelines, with several new descriptions. American Journal of Hygiene, 39(1), 1–7.
Causey, O.R., Deane, L.M., & Deane, M.P. (1946). II. An illustrated key by male genitalic characteristics for the identification of thirty-four species of Anophelini from the northeast and Amazon regions of Brazil, with a note on dissection technique. American Journal of Hygiene Monograph Series, 18, 21–31.
Cruz, O.G. (1907a). Um novo genero brasiliero da sub-familia “Anophelinae.” Brazil-Medico, 21(28), 271–273.
Deane, L.M., Causey, O.R., & Deane, M.P. (1946). I. An illustrated key by adult female characteristics for the identification of thirty-five species of Anophelini, with notes on the malaria vectors (Diptera, Culicidae). In Studies on Brazilian anophelines from the northeast and Amazon regions (pp. 1–18). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Deane, M.P., Causey, O.R., & Deane, L.M. (1946). III. An illustrated key by larval characteristics for the identification of thirty-two species of Anophelini, with descriptions of two larvae. In Studies on Brazilian anophelines from the northeast and Amazon regions (pp. 33–50). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dyar, H.G., & Knab, F. (1908). Descriptions of some new mosquitoes from tropical America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 35(1632), 53–70.
Dyar, H.G., & Shannon, R.C. (1925b). New mosquitoes from Brazil (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 15(2), 39–41.
Lane, J. (1953). Neotropical Culicidae (Vols. I–II). São Paulo, Brazil: University of São Paulo.
Linley, J.R., & Lounibos, L.P. (1994). The remarkable egg of Anopheles peryassui (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 26(1), 25–34.
Peryassú, A.G. (1925). Anopheles alagoanni (n. sp.) Peryassú. Folha médica, 6, 258–259.
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
Shannon, R.C., & Davis, N.C. (1930). Observations on the Anophelini (Culicidae) of Bahia, Brazil. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 23(3), 467–505.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles peryassui species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/peryassui, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
