Woodland Malaria Mosquito
Anopheles punctipennis (Say, 1823)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 15 counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee

Counties

Georgia

Dade, Walker

Illinois

Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Jackson, La Salle, Pike, Saline, Union

Indiana

Monroe

Kentucky

Pulaski, Warren

Tennessee

Blount, Sevier

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Canada

N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Indiana

S5 Secure

South Carolina

SNR Unranked

Wyoming

SNR Unranked

Montana

SNR Unranked

Illinois

SNR Unranked

Quebec

SNR Unranked

Nova Scotia

SU Unrankable

British Columbia

S5 Secure

Manitoba

S4 Apparently Secure

Prince Edward Island

SU Unrankable

New Brunswick

S5 Secure

Ontario

S5 Secure

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

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• Barr, T.C., Jr. & Kuehne, R.A. 1971. Ecological studies in the Mammoth Cave system of Kentucky. II. The Ecosystem. Annales de Speleologie 26: 47–96. doi:10.5038/1827-806X.3.1.10
• Lewis, J.J. 2004. Interstate 66 karst faunal study. Environmental Impact Statement. 17 pp.
• Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
• Peck, S.B. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176
• Peck, S.B. & Christiansen, K. 1990. Evolution and zoogeography of the invertebrate cave faunas of the Driftless Area of the upper Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 73–88. doi:10.1139/z90-012
• Reeves, W.K., Jensen, J.B. & Ozier, J.C. 2000. New faunal and fungal records from caves in Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 62: 169–179. https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v62/v62n3-Reeves.pdf.
• Reeves, W.K. 2000. Invertebrate cavernicoles of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116: 334–343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24335885.
• Reeves, W.K., Adler, P.H., Grogan, Jr., W.L. & Super, P.E. 2004. Hematophagous and parasitic Diptera (Insecta) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Zootaxa 483: 1–44.
• Webb, D.W., Taylor, S.J. & Krejca, J.K. 1993. The biological resources of Illinois caves and other subterranean environments. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 143 pp.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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