Anopheles similissimus Strickland & Chowdhury, 1927

ORIENTAL REGION

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Etymology: most similar to similis (L)

Type locality: Malay Peninsula [Malaysia]

Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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 - 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

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles similissimus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Malaysia

Distribution

 

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].