ORIENTAL REGION
Etymology: John Alexander Sinton
Type locality: Malabar, Madras, India
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK); Malaria Institute of India, Delhi, India [Collections transferred to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India (Reinert 1973e:32); See NICD] (MSI); National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Delhi, India (NICD)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
India
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Puri 1929b: 401 (M*, F, L*)
Christophers 1933: 116 (M*, F*, L*)
Reid 1968: 223 (M*, F*, L*)
Dong & Wang 1985a (P*, L*)
Tewari & Hiriyan 1991: 170 (P*)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
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CITED REFERENCES
Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.
Dong, X., & Wang, X. (1985a). Descriptions of the larva and pupa of Aedes (Finlaya) sintoni Barraud, 1924. Acta zootaxonomica Sinica, 10(3), 334–336.
Puri, I.M. (1929b). A new tree-hole breeding Anopheles from South India—Anopheles sintoni sp. nov. and a revised description of the larva of A. culiciformis Cogill. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 17(2), 397–404.
Reid, J.A. (1968). Anopheline mosquitoes of Malaya and Borneo. Studies from the Institute for Medical Research Malaysia, 31. 520pp.
Tewari, S.C., & Hiriyan, J. (1991). Description of the pupa of Anopheles (Anopheles) sintoni (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 23(2), 170–174.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles sintoni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/sintoni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
