ANOPHELES VESTITIPENNIS 989 



ANOPHELES VESTITIPENNIS Dyar & Knab. 



Anopheles vestitipennis Dyar & Knab, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 136, 1906. 

 Arribalzagia maculipes Fazos (not Theobald), San. y Ben., ii, 45, 180, 1909. 

 Anopheles vestitipennis Theobald, Mon. Cullc, v, 601, 1910. 



Original Description of Anopheles vestitipennis: 



Tarsi banded with white, the hind tarsi black and white, both tarsi and femora 

 speckled; wing veins black scaled with many little yellow patches. 



23 specimens, Trece Aguas, Alta Vera Paz, Guatemala, April 7 to 14, 1906 

 (Schwarz and Barber) ; Polochic River, Guat, May 1, 1906 (Schwarz and Barber); 

 Panzos, Guat., June, 1904 (0. F. Cook), March 23, 1906 (Schwarz and Barber); 

 Nautla, Mexico (A. Duges) ; Palizada, Mex. (A. Dugs) ; Cayamas, Cuba, May 22, 

 " in the house " (E. A. Schwarz). 



Type Cat No. 9976, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Description of Female of Anopheles vestitipennis (Male and Larva Unknown) : 



i^^ma^e. Proboscis moderate, straight, uniform ; labellse long, lanceolate, 

 with fine outstanding seta? ; vestiture rough, black. Palpi nearly as long as the 

 proboscis, uniform, roughened by long raised spatulate scales, black, a few 

 whitish scales at bases of last two joints and at middle of long joint, some long 

 setae at tip. Antennre filiform, the joints rather short, subequal, blackish, 

 densely pilose; some white scales on the second joint; hairs of whorls sparse, 

 black, short; tori subspherical, with an apical cup-shaped excavation, black- 

 ish-brown with a luteous rim, pruinose. Clypeus prominent, subtriangular, 

 dark brown, nude. Eyes well separated on the vertex, l)lack. Occiput with a 

 median groove, brown, broadly and densely clothed with small, erect, forked 

 black scales, a few white ones in the center of the vertex, some recumbent white 

 scales along eye margins, extending forward medianly to anterior angles of eyes ; 

 a tuft of long white hairs inserted well forward between eyes ; a row of black setae 

 along margins of eyes. 



Prothoracic lobes rather large, lateral, densely clothed with erect truncate 

 blackish scales. Mesonotum narrow, elongate, dark brown, slightly grayish 

 pruinose, mottled with dark spots, two dorsal, narrow, bare, dark longitudinal 

 stripes on anterior half, a broader bare dark stripe on each side of ante- 

 scutellar space, extending over posterior two-thirds, with an indistinct black 

 spot at its anterior end, an indistinct black spot beyond antescutellar space ; vesti- 

 ture of fine, moderately abundant, pale yellow hair-like scales arising from small 

 black tubercles and series of short black hairs. Scutellum collar-like, dark brown, 

 grayish pruinose, with a median black spot, clothed sparsely with yellow hair- 

 like scales and coarse, long, dark brown marginal hairs. Postnotum elliptical, 

 prominent, blackish-brown, nude. Pleurae and coxae blackish-brown with paler 

 pruinose markings and a few small patches of ovate yellowish scales. 



Abdomen subcylindrical, depressed, truncate at tip, brownish-black, clothed 

 evenly with numerous fine brown hairs and longer black ones, particularly at 

 the sides ; tip densely hairy ; cerci with small erect blackish-brown scales. 



Wings (plate 41, fig. 3) moderate, hyaline; petiole of second marginal cell 

 over half as long as its cell, that of second posterior cell longer than its cell ; basal 

 cross-vein distant about its own length from anterior cross-vein ; outstanding 

 scales of veins dense, narrowly ovate or sublanceolate, brownish-black, with ocher 

 yellow scales in small spots as follows : a few minute ones on the costa, and two 

 more conspicuous ones near its apex; six on first vein, the outer two opposite 

 those on the costa ; a small spot at furcation of second vein, none on its upper 

 branch, two on lower branch ; third vein with a small spot near base and slightly 

 longer apical and subapical ones ; fourth vein with two spots on the stem and two 

 on each fork ; fifth vein with two spots on the stem, three on upper fork and one 

 long one on lower ; sixth vein with five yellow spots. Halteres pale, with dark 

 knobs. 



Legs long and slender; vestiture black; femora and tibiae with irregularly 

 scattered little yellowish-white spots on the sides, more numerous on the fore 

 legs; hind legs with about eight spots on femur and four on tibia towards base; 



