Anopheles (Anopheles) peytoni New Species, the 'An. insulaeflorum' auct. from Sri Lanka (Diptera: Culicidae)
Abstract
Anopheles insulaeflorum (Swellengrebel and Swellengrebel-de Graaf, 1920), has been recorded from Sri Lanka since Carter (1925) listed this species and illustrated larval differences to separate it from An. aitkenii James, 1903. Numerous other authors have continued to list insulaeflorum from Sri Lanka, yet not one of those authors professed to seeing specimens from Sri Lanka. Anopheles insulaeflorum has been recorded from many areas of the Oriental faunal region and in Reid (1965, 1968) it was listed as distributed from India and Ceylon (=Sri Lanka) in the west, Formosa (=Taiwan) and the Philippines in the east and through Malaya and Indonesia in the south. However, this distribution was altered significantly when Harrison and Scanlon (1974) described a new species, pilinotum, for the insulaeflorum specimens previously recorded from the Philippines and eastern Indonesia. Since 1975, several mosquito collections have been made in Sri Lanka through the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Biosystematic Studies of the Insects of Ceylon project and the University of Peradeniya. These collections have produced numerous specimens from several different areas which initially looked nearly identical to insulaeflorum in the larval stage, but upon closer examination were distinct. Reprints.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA221879
Entities
People
- Bruce A. Harrison
- F. P. Amerasinghe
- Varuni L. Kulasekera
Organizations
- Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit