Anopheles berghei Vincke & Leleup, 1949

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: L. Van den Berghe

Type locality: Kishibi forest, Kanzenze region, Kolwezi Territory, Katanga, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: Musée Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Brussels, Belgium (CMT)

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

Democratic Republic of the Congo

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Vincke & Leleup 1949c: 248 (A*, L)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 156 (M, F*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

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, 343pp.

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.

Vincke, I., & Leleup, N. (1949c). Un nouvel Anophèle dendrophil de Katanga: Anopheles berghei sp. nov. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 42(3–4), 248–249.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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