AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Azania (ancient name of NE Africa)
Type locality: British Somaliland [Somalia]
Type depository: Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches Tropicales, Bondy, Seine, France. Now Centre de Faunistique de l'O.R.S.T.O.M. a Bondy, 93-France [See SSC] (IERT)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles azaniae DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Bailly-Choumara 1960: 532 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distr.)
Rodhain et al. 1977 (distr.)
Ahmed et al. 2011 (distr.; Saudi Arabia)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Ahmed, A.M., Shaalan, E.A., Aboul-Soud, M.A.M., Tripet, F., & Al-Khedhairy, A.A. (2011). Mosquito vectors survey in the Al-Ahsaa district of eastern Saudi Arabia. Journal of Insect Science, 11, 176.
Bailly-Choumara, H. (1960). Une espèce nouvelle d’Anopheles du golfe d’Aden, Anopheles (Myzomyia) azaniae. Notes morphologiques, systématiques et écologiques. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 53(3), 531–542.
Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.
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.
Rodhain, F., Boutonnier, A., & Coulanges, P. (1977). Bibliographie des Culicides de Madagascar. Archives des l’Instituts Pasteur de Madagascar, 46, 485–495.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles azaniae species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/azaniae accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
