Anopheles jamesii

{{Short description|Species complex of mosquito}}

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| image = Anopheles jamesii.jpg

| genus = Anopheles

| parent = Anopheles (Cellia)

| species = jamesii

| authority = Theobald, 1901

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Anopheles (Cellia) jamesii is a species complex of mosquito belonging to the genus Anopheles. It is found in India, and Sri Lanka,{{cite web|url=http://thakshana.nsf.ac.lk/slstic/NA-81/NA_81.pdf |title=An annotated checklist of mosquitoes of Sri Lanka |publisher=Man and Biosphere Reserve of Sri Lanka |accessdate=30 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625065751/http://thakshana.nsf.ac.lk/slstic/NA-81/NA_81.pdf |archivedate=25 June 2016 }} Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is a potential natural vector of bancroftian filariasis in Sri Lanka.{{cite web | url=http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=18062 | title=jamesii Theobald. | publisher=Systematic Catalog of Culicidae|accessdate=30 January 2017}}

The species is named after the malariologist S.P. James.