Anopheles daciae
| Anopheles daciae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Anopheles |
| Species: | A. daciae
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| Binomial name | |
| Anopheles daciae Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach, 2004
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Anopheles daciae is a species of mosquito that belongs to the same species complex as Anopheles messeae, from which it can only be distinguished by DNA analysis.[1][2][3]
Distribution[edit]
The species was first described from Romania,[1] but has since been found in Croatia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Serbia, and Sweden.
Taxonomic placement[edit]
Ever since it was described, An. daciae was the subject of scientific debate about its existence due to the very small differences between An. daciae and An. messeae. While results from Romania[1] and Great Britain[4] supported the two-species hypothesis, studies from Italy[5] and Russia[6] disputed this. Two studies from Russia[7] and Sweden,[8] which analyzed the DNA with more advanced methods, could finally determine that An. daciae is indeed a species on its own.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Nicolescu, G.; Linton, Y.-M.; Vladimirescu, A.; Howard, T.M.; Harbach, R.E. (December 2004). "Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 94 (6): 525–535. doi:10.1079/BER2004330. ISSN 0007-4853. PMID 15541192.
- ^ Bisby, F.A.; Roskov, Y.R.; Orrell, T.M.; Nicolson, D.; Paglinawan, L.E.; Bailly, N.; Kirk, P.M.; Bourgoin, T.; Baillargeon, G.; Ouvrard, D. (2011). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 24 September 2012.
- ^ Systema Dipterorum. Pape T. & Thompson F.C. (eds), 2011-01-06
- ^ Linton, Y.M.; Lee, A.S.; Curtis, C. (2005). "Discovery of a third member of the Maculipennis Group in SW England". European Mosquito Bulletin. 19: 5–9.
- ^ Di Luca, Marco; Boccolini, Daniela; Marinucci, Marino; Romi, Roberto (2004-07-01). "Intrapopulation Polymorphism in Anopheles messeae ( An. maculipennis Complex) Inferred by Molecular Analysis". Journal of Medical Entomology. 41 (4): 582–586. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-41.4.582. ISSN 0022-2585. PMID 15311447. S2CID 40315287.
- ^ Bezzhonova, O. V.; Goryacheva, I. I. (May 2008). "Intragenomic heterogeneity of rDNA internal transcribed spacer 2 in Anopheles messeae (Diptera: Culicidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology. 45 (3): 337–341. doi:10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[337:ihorit]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0022-2585. PMID 18533424. S2CID 41607708.
- ^ Naumenko, Anastasia N.; Karagodin, Dmitriy A.; Yurchenko, Andrey A.; Moskaev, Anton V.; Martin, Olga I.; Baricheva, Elina M.; Sharakhov, Igor V.; Gordeev, Mikhail I.; Sharakhova, Maria V. (2020-02-05). "Chromosome and Genome Divergence between the Cryptic Eurasian Malaria Vector-Species Anopheles messeae and Anopheles daciae". Genes. 11 (2): 165. doi:10.3390/genes11020165. ISSN 2073-4425. PMC 7074279. PMID 32033356.
- ^ Lilja, T.; Eklöf, D.; Jaenson, T. G. T.; Lindström, A.; Terenius, O. (September 2020). "Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of the ITS2 region of two sympatric malaria mosquito species in Sweden: Anopheles daciae and Anopheles messeae". Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 34 (3): 364–368. doi:10.1111/mve.12436. ISSN 0269-283X. PMID 32160338. S2CID 212677844.
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