Anopheles philippinensis Ludlow, 1902

ORIENTAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS

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Etymology: Philippine Islands

Type locality: San José, Abra, Luzon, Philippines

Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (Vietnam)

Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (Nepal)

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Oriental - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Indomalaya - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Indomalaya - Larva

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Adult

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WRBU - Anopheles (Cel.) Neocellia Series - Oriental - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles philippinensis DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Ludlow 1902b: 426 (Aug. 23) (F), 1902: 128 (Sept.)

Crawford 1938: 96 (P*)

Roy & Siddons 1939: 159 (E*)

Colless 1948: 109 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)

Masters 1948: 178 (L)

Stone & Knight 1956b: 279 (type information)

Reid 1967: 175 (M*, P*, L*; taxonomy)

Nguyen Thuong Hien 1968 (F*, L*; keys, taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Vietnam)

Aslamkhan 1971b (distribution; Pakistan)

Basio 1971b: 44 (M*, F*; bionomics)

Baisas 1974: 71 (M, F*, P, L*; taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Philippines)

Darsie & Pradhan 1990 (F, L; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution; Nepal)

Oo et al. 2004 (distribution; Myanmar)

Rattanarithikul et al. 2006b (F*, L*; bionomics, distribution, keys)

Morgan et al. 2009 (molecular phyl; Neocellia Series)

Morgan et al. 2011 (distribution, phylogeography)

Namgay et al. 2018 (bion, distribution; Bhutan)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. freerae Banks

1906: 993 (F; Pyretophorus). Type locality: Manila [Rizal], Luzon, Philippines (NE).

syn. pampangensis Brunetti

1920: 114 (new name for philippinensis Ludlow 1902; in error).

syn. hainanensis Takei

1941: 417 (A). Type locality: Pao-ting, Nanch’en, Nan-feng, and Tahsing, Hainan Island [People’s Republic of China] (LU). References: Reid 1968: 385 (synonymy).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Aslamkhan, M. (1971b). The mosquitoes of Pakistan. I. A checklist. Mosquito Systematics, 3(4), 147–159.

Baisas, F.E. (1974). The mosquito fauna of Subic Bay Naval Reservation, Republic of the Philippines. San Francisco, CA: First Medical Service Wing (PACAF), Technical Report 72-2.

Banks, C.S. (1906b). A list of Philippine Culicidae with descriptions of some new species. Philippine Journal of Science, 1(9), 977–1005.

Basio, R.G. (1971b). The mosquito fauna of the Philippines (Diptera, Culicidae). Monograph No. 4. Manila, Philippines: National Museum of the Philippines.

Brunetti, E. (1920). Catalogue of Oriental and South Asiatic Nematocera. Records of the Indian Museum, 17, 1–300.

Colless, D.H. (1948). The anopheline mosquitoes of north-west Borneo. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 73(3–4), 71–119.

Crawford, R. (1938). Some anopheline pupae of Malaya with a note on pupal structure. Singapore: Government Printing Office.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1990). The mosquitoes of Nepal: Their identification, distribution and biology. Mosquito Systematics, 22(2), 69–130.

Darsie, R.F., Jr., & Pradhan, S.P. (1991). The mosquitoes of Nepal their identification, distribution and biology. Index and corrigendum. Mosquito Systematics, 23(1), 46–49.

Ludlow, C.S. (1902b). Description of a new Anopheles. Journal of the American Medical Association, 39(8), 426–427.

Masters, C.O. 1948. Some notes on the identification of Anopheles philippinensis and A. pallidus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 50, 178.

Morgan, K., O’Loughlin, S.M., Bin, C., Linton, Y.-M., Thongwat, D., Somboon, P., . . . Walton, C. (2011). Comparative phylogeography reveals a shared impact of Pleistocene environmental change in shaping genetic diversity within nine Anopheles mosquito species across the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. Molecular Biology, 20(21), 4533–4549.

Morgan, K., O’Loughlin, S.M., Mun-Yik, F., Linton, Y.-M., Somboon, P., Min, S., . . . Walton, C. (2009). Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of the Neocellia Series of Anopheles mosquitoes in the Oriental Region. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 52(3), 588–601.

Namgay, R., Drukpa, T., Wangdi, T., Pemo, D., Harbach, R.E., & Somboon, P. (2018). A checklist of the Anopheles mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Bhutan. Acta Tropica, 188, 206–212.

Nguyen Thuong Hien. (1968). The genus of Anopheles in Vietnam (Military Entomology Information Service, Trans.). Saigon: Bureau of Entomology, National Malaria Program/Republic of Vietnam.

Oo, T.T., Storch, V., & Becker, N. (2004). Review of the Anopheles mosquitoes of Myanmar. Journal of Vector Ecology, 29(1), 21–40.

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.

Reid, J.A. (1967). Two forms of Anopheles philippinensis in Malaya. Journal of Medical Entomology, 4(2), 175–179.

Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 1–520.

Roy, D.N., & Siddons, L.B. (1939). Egg of A. philippinensis Ludl. Journal of the Malaria Institute of India, 2, 159–164.

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.

Takei, H. (1941). Kinds and distribution of Anopheles in Hainan Island. Bulletin of the Naval Medical Association of Japan, 3, 90–94.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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