PALEARCTIC REGION
Etymology: like (Gr); resembling sinensis
Type locality: Bibai [Hokkaido], Japan
Type depository: Medical Zoology Laboratory, Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (IID)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
LaCasse & Yamaguti 1950
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) species - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles (Ano.) species - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Japan, People’s Republic of China, South Korea.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Yamada 1924: 233 (M, F)
LaCasse & Yamaguti 1950: 23 (M*, F*, P*, L*; keys)
Asanuma & Nakagawa 1954a: 370 (P*)
Hara 1957: 47 (P*)
Ohmori 1957 (M*, E*)
Ohmori 1959: 222 (P*)
Otsuru & Ohmori 1960: 53 (M*, F*, P, L, E*; taxonomy)
Kanda & Oguma 1977: 115 (hybridization with sinensis)
Tanaka et al. 1979: 81 (M*, F*, P, L*, E)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Asanuma, K., & Nakagawa, H. (1954a). A key to the genera of Japanese mosquitoes, based on pupal chaetotaxy. Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology, 4, 362–375.
Hara, J. (1957). Studies on the female terminalia of Japanese mosquitoes. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 27, 45–91.
Kanda, T., & Oguma, Y. (1977). Hybridization between Anopheles sinensis and Anopheles sineroides. Mosquito News, 37(1), 115–117.
La Casse, W.J., & Yamaguti, S. (1950). Mosquito fauna of Japan and Korea. Kyoto, Japan: Office of the Surgeon, Headquarters 8th Army, US Army.
Ohmori, Y. (1957). On the male hypopygium of the sinensis group of anopheline mosquitoes in Japan. Acta médica et biological, Niigata, 5, 209–217.
Ohmori, Y. (1959). The pupae of Japanese Anopheles. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 10, 210–225.
Otsuru, M., & Ohmori, Y. (1960). Malaria studies in Japan after World War II. Part II. The research for Anopheles sinensis sibling species group. Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine, 30, 33–65.
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.
Yamada, S. (1924). A revision of the adult anopheline mosquitoes of Japan: Systematic descriptions, their habits and their relations to human diseases, together with an account of three new species. Scientific Reports from the Government Institute for Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Imperial University, 3, 215–241.
CITE THIS PAGE
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