PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: Giovanni Petragnani
Type locality: Latium, Italy
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Becker et al. 2010
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Algeria, France (includes Corsica), Germany, Greece, Italy (includes Sardinia and Sicily), Morocco, Portugal, Spain (includes Balearic Islands), Tunisia, United Kingdom
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Del Vecchio 1939: 30 (E*)
Bates et al. 1949: 422 (synonymy)
Senevet & Andarelli 1955a: 128 (P*, E*)
Senevet & Andarelli 1955b: 129 (E*)
Coluzzi 1962: 1025 (from synonymy)
Ramsdale & Snow 2000: 7 (distribution)
Eritja et al. 2000: 11 (distribution; Spain)
Becker et al. 2010: 168 (M*, F*, P, L*; keys, taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution; western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. portucaliensis Figueiredo
1904: 223 (F*, L*; bifurcatus variety). Type locality: Barro, Loures [Lisbon], Portugal (LU). References: Ribeiro et al. 1988: 235 (from variety bifurcatus to synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Bates, M., Beklemishev, W.N., & La Face, L. (1949). Anophelines of the Palearctic 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 (pp. 419–442). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Coluzzi, M. (1962). Le forme di Anopheles claviger Meigen indicate con i nomi missirolii e petragnanii, sono due specie riproduttivamente isolate. Rendiconti Accademia dei Lincei, 32(6), 1025–1030.
Del Vecchio, G. (1939). Sulle varietà. de A. claviger (bifurcatus). Nota. I. Rivista di Parassitologia, 3(1), 27–37.
Eritja, R., Aranda, C., Padrós, J., Goula, M., Lucientes, J., Escosa, R., . . . Cáceres, F. (2000). An annotated checklist and bibliography of the mosquitoes of Spain (Diptera: Culicidae). European Mosquito Bulletin, 8, 10–18.
Figueiredo, A.C. de (1904). Da existencia do Anopheles bifurcatus em Portugal. A medicina contemporanea, 22, 184–187, 223–225.
Ramsdale, C.D., & Snow, K. (2000). Distribution of the genus Anopheles in Europe. European Mosquito Bulletin, 7, 1–26.
Ribeiro, H., da Cunha Ramos, H., Pires, C.A., & Capela, R.A. (1988). An annotated checklist of the mosquitoes of continental Portugal (Diptera, Culicidae). Actas Congreso Ibérico de Entomología, Granada, 3, 233–254.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Senevet, G., & Andarelli, L. (1955a). Les Anopheles de l’Afrique du Nord et du Bassin Meditérranéen. P. Lechevallier (Ed.), Encylopédie Entomologique. Paris, 33, 1–280.
Senevet, G., & Andarelli, L. (1955b). Races et variétés de l’Anopheles claviger Meigen, 1804. Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie, 33(2), 128–137.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles petragnani species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/petragnani, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
