PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: James Joseph Sapero
Type locality: Chizuka, Okinawa, Ryukyu-Retto [Japan]
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Reid 1968
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Japan
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Bohart & Ingram 1946a: 46 (F*, L*, E*)
Bohart & Ingram 1946b: 53 (F*, L*, E; bionomics, distribution, taxonomy)
Reid 1968: 143 (keys)
Tanaka et al. 1975c: 210 (taxonomy, distribution)
Tanaka et al. 1979: 68 (M*, F*, P, L*)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. ohamai Ohama
1947: 11 (M*, L*) (mimeographed). Type locality: Ishigaki Island [Ryukyu-Retto, Japan] (NMST). Distribution: Japan. References: Reid 1968: 143 (key); Tanaka et al. 1979: 71 (to ssp. of saperoi). Etymology: Shinken Ohama.
CITED REFERENCES
Bohart, R.M., & Ingram, R.L. (1946a). Four new species of mosquitoes from Okinawa (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 36(2), 46–52.
Bohart, R.M., & Ingram, R.L. (1946b). Mosquitoes of Okinawa and islands in the Central Pacific. In US NAVMED (Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department).
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31, 520pp.
Tanaka, K., Mizusawa, K., & Saugstad, E.S. (1979). A revision of the adult and larval mosquitoes of Japan (including the Ryukyu Archipelago and Ogasawara Islands) and Korea (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 16, 1–987.
Tanaka, K., Saugstad, E.S., & Mizusawa, K. (1975c). Mosquitoes of the Ryukyu Archipelago (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 7(3), 207–233.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles saperoi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/saperoi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
