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Issue: Vol. 941 No. 1: 15 Apr. 2005
Type: Articles
Published: 2005-04-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.941.1.1
Page range: 1–26
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 22

Two new species of Anopheles (Anopheles) Hyrcanus Group (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Republic of South Korea

Department of Entomology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 503 Robert Grant Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910-7500, U.S.A. (Mailing address: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Museum Support Center, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746)
Diptera Anopheles belenrae kleini Culicidae taxonomy description mosquitoes Hyrcanus Group

Abstract

Two new mosquito species belonging to the Hyrcanus Group, Anopheles (Anopheles) belenrae Rueda and An. (Ano.) kleini Rueda, are described from the Republic of South Korea, with illustrations of the larvae, pupae, adults, and male genitalia.

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