Anopheles austenii (Theobald, 1905)

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Edward Ernest Austen

Type locality: Bihe, Angola

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Theobald 1905b: 102 (F; Pyretophorus)

De Meillon 1947b: 101 (F*)

Lips & Hamon 1955: 872 (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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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.

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.

Lips, M., & Hamon, J. (1955). Contribution a l'étude des culicidés (Diptères) de la Région Éthiopienne. Description de la larve, de la nymphe et du mâle d’Anopheles austeni Theobald 1905. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 48(6), 872–882.

Theobald, F.V. (1905b). New Culicidae from the west coast of Africa. The Entomologist, 38(503), 101–104, 154–158.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles austenii species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/austenii, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].