Anopheles splendidus
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 splendidus
Visual Description
Based on observations of museum specimens, Anopheles splendidus exhibits characteristic features of the genus Anopheles[1]. The specimens display the slender body form typical of mosquitoes, with long, delicate legs and narrow wings. The thorax and abdomen show distinct patterns of scaling, which are diagnostic for species identification within the subgenus Cellia[2].
Classification and Distribution
Anopheles splendidus was described by Koidzumi in 1920[3]. It is classified within the subgenus Cellia of the genus Anopheles[2]. The genus Anopheles is a diverse, cosmopolitan group of mosquitoes comprising hundreds of species[4].
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / splendidus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Anopheles (Cellia) splendidus Koidzumi 1920 - Plazi TreatmentBank. Plazi TreatmentBank. http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/xhtml/03ED87D4B210FFEEFF259E04AC64FAA9. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Anopheles splendidus Koidzumi, 1920. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1650486. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Ralph E. Harbach. The Phylogeny and Classification of Anopheles. InTech eBooks. 2013. https://doi.org/10.5772/54695.