Anopheles earlei
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 earlei
Visual Description
Anopheles earlei is a mosquito species characterized by the typical morphology of the genus Anopheles. Observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset reveal the characteristic slender body form and long, thin legs common to culicids.[1] The wings are typically marked with dark and light scales, a feature often used in the identification of Anopheles species.[1]
Classification and Distribution
Anopheles earlei was described by Vargas in 1943.[2] It belongs to the genus Anopheles, which is a cosmopolitan group of mosquitoes comprising hundreds of species divided into several subgenera.[3] The genus is organized using both formal taxonomic ranks and informal categories based on morphological and biological characteristics.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / earlei constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Anopheles earlei Vargas, 1943. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1650540. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- 1 2 Ralph E. Harbach. The Phylogeny and Classification of Anopheles. InTech eBooks. 2013. https://doi.org/10.5772/54695.