Anopheles vestitipennis
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 vestitipennis
Visual Description
Anopheles vestitipennis is a mosquito species within the family Culicidae. While specific morphological traits are often documented in taxonomic literature, high-resolution visual inspection of museum specimens from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset confirms the general habitus characteristic of the genus Anopheles.[1] Specimens exhibit the typical slender body form and long, thin legs associated with the genus. The wings and body display the scaled patterns typical of the family, though finer diagnostic features such as specific wing-vein scaling or palpal banding require microscopic examination beyond the resolution of the available dataset images.[1]
Cytogenetics
The salivary chromosomes of Anopheles vestitipennis have been studied, revealing a diploid number of six.[2] In salivary preparations, these appear as five paired elements: one short, telocentric X chromosome and two longer metacentric autosomes.[2]
A standard salivary chromosome map has been established, dividing the complement into 39 numbered regions.[2] The X chromosome is the shortest element, while the autosomes vary in arm length; chromosome 2 has arms of approximately equal length, whereas in chromosome 3, the right arm is longer than the left.[2] Chromosomal variation, specifically a common inversion in the right arm of chromosome 3, has been identified in studied populations.[2]
The banding patterns of A. vestitipennis show similarities to those of the Holarctic Maculipennis complex, such as A. freeborni and A. quadrimaculatus, and are also very similar to those of A. neomaculipalpus.[2]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Anopheles / vestitipennis constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 B. N. Chowdaiah; Richard H. Baker; J. B. Kitzmiller. The Salivary Chromosomes of <i>Anopheles vestitipennis</i>. CYTOLOGIA. 1966. https://doi.org/10.1508/cytologia.31.144.