PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: Nikolai Alekseevich Sacharov
Type locality: Evlaxe, Yelizavetpol District, Transcaucasia [Elisabethpol, Caucasus, USSR]
Type depository: Central State Museum of Zoology, Moscow, Russia (ZMM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Bates et al. 1949
White 1979
Becker et al. 2010
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Western Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Western Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles - Republic of Georgia - Adult
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Crimean Peninsula, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel (and Gaza Strip and West Bank), Italy (includes Sardinia), Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Palestine, People’s Republic of China, Portugal, Russia (Southern Districts.), Spain, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Favre 1903: 189 (A)
Martini 1929: 143 (M*, F*, L*, E*; as elutus)
Ross & Roberts 1943b: 1 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Bates et al. 1949 (F, L, E*; keys)
White 1979 (taxonomy, review, keys, distribution; lectotype designation, male)
Glick 1992: 129 (distribution)
Hadjivassilis 2000: 38 (distribution; Greece)
Ramsdale & Snow 2000 (distribution; Europe)
Sedaghat et al. 2003a: 243 (M*, F, P*, L*, E; taxonomy)
Sedaghat et al. 2003b (distribution, Iran)
Linton et al. 2003 (review; Maculipennis Complex)
Qu & Zhu 2008 (distribution; People’s Republic of China)
Linton et al. 2007 (molecular taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Greece)
Sinka et al. 2010: 117 (bionomics, review, distribution, niche model)
Becker et al. 2010: 175 (F*, E*; keys, taxonomy, distribution, bionomics)
Namazov 2014 (distribution; Azerbaijan)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution, western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. elutus Edwards
1921d: 273 (M, F, L, E*). Type locality: Kishon, Palestine [Israel] (NHMUK).
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.
Edwards, F.W. (1921d). A revision of the mosquitos [sic] of the Palaearctic Region. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 12(3), 263–351.
Favre, V.V. (1903). An attempt in the study of malaria in Russia. Kharkhov.
Glick, J.I. (1992). Illustrated key to the female Anopheles of southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 24(2), 125–153.
Hadjivassilis, A. (2000). Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Cyprus. European Mosquito Bulletin, 7, 38.
Linton, Y.-M., Smith, L., Koliopoulos, G., Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, A., Zounos, A.K., & Harbach, R.E. (2003). Morphological and molecular characterization of Anopheles (Anopheles) maculipennis Meigen, type species of the genus and nominotypical member of the Maculipennis Complex. Systematic Entomology, 28(1), 39–55.
Linton, Y.-M., Smith, L., Koliopoulos, G., Zounos, A.K., Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, A., Patsoula, E., & Harbach, R.E. (2007). The Anopheles (Anopheles) maculipennis complex (Diptera: Culicidae) in Greece. Journal of Natural History, 41(41–44), 2683–2699.
Martini, E. (1929). 11. u. 12. Culicidae. In E. Lindner (Ed.), Die Fliegen der palaerktischen Region. Band III (pp. 1–144). Stuttgart, Germany: E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Erwin Nägele).
Namazov, N.D. (2014). The distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Republic of Azerbaijan. Entomological Review, 92, 280–282.
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.
Ramsdale, C.D., & Snow, K. (2000). Distribution of the genus Anopheles in Europe. European Mosquito Bulletin, 7, 1–26.
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.
Ross, E.S., & Roberts, H.R. (1943b). Mosquito atlas. Part II. Eighteen old world anophelines important to malaria. Philadelphia: The American Entomological Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Sedaghat, M.M., Linton, Y.-M., Nicolescu, G., Smith, L., Koliopoulous, G., Zounos, A., . . . Harbach, R.E. (2003a). Morphological and molecular characterization of Anopheles (Anopheles) sacharovi Favre, a primary vector of malaria in the Middle East. Systematic Entomology, 28, 241–256.
Sedaghat, M.M., Linton, Y.-M., Oshaghu, M.A., Vatandoost, H., & Harbach, R.E. (2003b). The Anopheles maculipennis complex in Iran: Molecular characterization and recognition of a new species. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 93(6), 527–535.
Sinka, M.E., Bangs, M.J., Manguin, S., Coetzee, M., Mbogo, C.M., Hemingway, J., . . . Hay, S.I. (2010a). The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: Occurrence, data, distribution maps and bionomic précis. Parasites and Vectors, 3(117), 1–34.
White, G.B. (1979). Identification of mosquitoes as vectors of malaria and filariasis. In A.E.R. Tayor and R. Muller (Eds.), Symposia of the British Society for Parasitology (Problems in the identification of parasites and their vectors), 17, 103–143.
CITE THIS PAGE
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