Anopheles
Creators: name: Harrison, Bruce A.
name: Ruiz-Lopez, Freddy
name: Falero, Guillermo Calderon
name: Savage, Harry M.
name: Pecor, James E.
name: Wilkerson, Richard C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles

description: Key to the females of Anopheles (Kerteszia)
1 Mesepimeron with 1 long, large and curved (C-shaped) scale-patch that extends ventrally from upper setae............. 2
- Mesepimeron with 1 or 2 small scale-patches.............................................................. 3
2(1) Proboscis, pedicel, and palpomere 1 with white scales; hindtarsomeres 1and 2 without apical pale band (from dorsal view) (Fig. 3)....................................................................................... lepidotus
- Proboscis, pedicel, and palpomere 1 without white scales; hindtarsomeres 1 and 2 with narrow apical pale band (from dorsal view)....................................................................................... pholidotus
3(1) Mesepimeron with 1 small scale-patch next to upper setae.................................................... 4
- Mesepimeron with 2 small scale-patches (upper and middle).................................................. 7
4(3) Abdominal terga II–VII with numerous dark decumbent scales; sterna with few white scales...........................
.............................................. boliviensis, gonzalezrinconesi, rollai (currently cannot be separated) - Abdominal terga and sterna without scales (except possibly on VII, VIII and cerci)................................ 5
5(4) Hindtarsomere 5 entirely white-scaled; wing without pale fringe spot at tip of wing...................... bambusicolus
- Hindtarsomere 5 with base dark, apical 0.35–0.60 pale; wing with large pale fringe spot at tip or rarely divided into 2 small pale fringe spots..................................................................................... 6
6(5) Scutum with white scales on acrostichal area from anterior promontory to near prescutellar setae; hindtarsomeres 2–4 with nar- row white band on distal 0.15–0.5........................................................... auyantepuiensis
- Scutum without white scales on acrostichal area; hindtarsomeres 2–4 with broad white band on distal 0.5–0.7....... neivai
7(3) Hindtarsomeres 2–4 with narrow apical pale band, 0.3 or less length of tarsomeres; hindtarsomere 5 usually entirely dark................................................................................................... bellator
- Hindtarsomeres 2–5 with broad apical pale bands, 0.4–0.7 length of tarsomere..................................... 8
8(7) Scutum with anterior 0.3–0.4 of acrostichal and dorsocentral areas and middle of scutellum with few white scales; vein M entirely or mostly white-scaled basal to level of Cu fork................................................. laneanus
- Scutum without pale scales on acrostichal, dorsocentral, and scutellum; vein M with dark scales basal to level of Cu fork … 9
9(8) Scales on palpomeres 3 and 4 predominately decumbent, those on base of 3 may be slightly erect................. cruzii *
- Scales on palpomere 3 covered with slightly erect scales, palpomere 4 with slightly erect to decumbent scales.. homunculus *
description: Published as part of Harrison, Bruce A., Ruiz-Lopez, Freddy, Falero, Guillermo Calderon, Savage, Harry M., Pecor, James E. & Wilkerson, Richard C., 2012, Anopheles (Kerteszia) lepidotus (Diptera: Culicidae), not the malaria vector we thought it was: Revised male and female morphology; larva, pupa, and male genitalia characters; and molecular verification, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 3218 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.211343