Anopheles atropos
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 atropos
Visual Description
Anopheles atropos is a mosquito species characterized by the typical morphological features of the genus Anopheles[2]. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal a slender body form typical of culicids, with long, thin legs and a pair of wings[1]. The specimens exhibit a brownish to grayish coloration, with wings that often show subtle patterns or venation characteristic of the genus[1].
Classification and Biology
Anopheles atropos is a member of the genus Anopheles, which is the nominotypical genus of the subfamily Anophelinae[2]. The genus Anopheles is a cosmopolitan group containing hundreds of formally named species divided into seven subgenera[2]. The species was formally described by Dyar and Knab in 1906[3].
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / atropos constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 Ralph E. Harbach. The Phylogeny and Classification of Anopheles. InTech eBooks. 2013. https://doi.org/10.5772/54695.
- ↑ Anopheles atropos Dyar & Knab, 1906. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1650585. Accessed 2026-07-09.