REGION
Etymology: n.s. [silvery lobes (L); poss. ref. to apex of abdomen].
Type locality: Onderstepoort, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa]
Type depositories: Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa (TMP), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom (LSTM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva:
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Gough 1910: 116 (F; Cellia)
Evans 1938: 389 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 243 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Mattingly 1947: 243 (P*)
Vincke & Leleup 1950: 1603 (bionomics)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pseudosquomosa Newstead & Carter
1911b: 236 (F; Cellia). Type locality: Chinyanta’s Village, Luombwa River, NE Rhodesia [Zambia] (NHMUK). References: Townsend 1990: 124 (type depository).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Gough, L.H. (1910). On a collection of Anopheles made at Onderstepoort in the autumn of 1909. Report of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist, Union of South Africa 1908–09, 115–121.
Kyalo, D., Amratia, P., Mundia, C.W., Mbogo, C.M., Coetzee, M., & Snow, R.W. (2017). A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898–2016. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 57.
Mattingly, P.F. (1947). Notes on the early stages of certain Ethiopian mosquitoes, with some locality records from British West Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 41(2), 239–252.
Newstead, R., & Carter, H.F. (1911b). On some new species of African mosquitos (Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 5(2), 233–244.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles argenteolobatus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/argenteolobatus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
