ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: most similar to similis (L)
Type locality: Malay Peninsula [Malaysia]
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Oriental - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Malaysia
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Strickland & Chowdhury 1927a: 19 (new name for similis Strickland, not Theobald 1901a)
Reid 1950: 310 (L; taxonomy)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. similis Strickland
1917: 611 (F, L; Myzorhynchus). Type locality: Malay Peninsula [Malaysia] (LU).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CiTED REFERENCES
Reid, J.A. (1950). The Anopheles umbrosus group (Diptera: Culicidae). I: Systematics, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 101(9), 281–318.
Strickland, C. (1917). A new species of anopheline, Myzorhynchus similis from the Malay Peninsula. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 4(3), 611.
Strickland, C., & Chowdhury, K.L. (1927a). An illustrated key to the identification of the anopheline larvae of India, Ceylon, and Malaya, west of Wallace’s Line with practical notes on their collection. Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles similissimus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/similissimus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
