Anopheles annulipes
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Culicidae
- Genus: Anopheles
- Species: Anopheles annulipes
Visual Description
Anopheles annulipes, commonly known as the Spear Mosquito, exhibits characteristic features of the genus Anopheles. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a slender body typical of culicid mosquitoes, with long, delicate legs and narrow wings.[1] The species is noted for its patterned appearance, with distinct light and dark scaling on the legs and wings, which is a diagnostic trait for many species within the Anopheles genus.[1]
Classification and Phylogeny
Anopheles annulipes is a member of the Anopheles genus, which is the nominotypical genus of the subfamily Anophelinae.[2] The genus is highly diverse, containing hundreds of species organized into various subgenera and informal categories such as Sections, Series, Groups, and Complexes.[2] Anopheles annulipes is formally recognized as a species within the annulipes species complex.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / annulipes constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Ralph E. Harbach. The Phylogeny and Classification of Anopheles. InTech eBooks. 2013. https://doi.org/10.5772/54695.
- ↑ Anopheles annulipes. NCBI Nucleotide. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid376584[organism:exp]. Accessed 2026-07-14.