AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Samuel Lindsay Brohier
Type locality: Wa, Gold Coast [Ghana]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1929c: 322 (F; theileri variety)
de Meillon 1947b: 167 (F)
Mattingly 1949a: 23 (P*; to species)
Hamon 1954a: 579 (F*, P*, L*)
Adam et al. 1956: 748 (M*, F*; to variety of hancocki Edwards)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4, 158 (F*, L*; syn.; new)
Service 1977: 234 (F*; distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. septentrionalis Evans 1934: 558 (M, F*, L*; theileri variety). Type locality: Arua [Northern Region], Uganda (NHMUK). References: Adam & Hamon et al. 1956: 758 (synonymy); Stone & Knight 1957c: 199 (type information).
syn. masseguini Hamon 1954a: 575 (F*, P*, L*). Type locality: Tiera, Bobo Dioulasso, Haute Volta [Burkina Faso] (IERT). References: Adam et al. 1956: 750 (M, F*); Harrison 1973c: 278 (type information).
syn. gilroyi Service 1960c: 87 (M*, F*, P, L*). Type locality: Itchi, near Enugu, eastern Nigeria (NHMUK).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Adam, J.-P., Hamon, J., Rickenbach, A., & Lips, M. (1956). I. Description du mâle et du pharynx de la femelle d’Anopheles brohieri Edwards 1929 et A. hancocki var. masseguini Hamon 1954. II. Étude des affinités existant entre Anopheles hancocki, A. hancocki var. messeguini, A. brohieri, A. theileri, A. seydeli. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 49(4), 747–758.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Edwards, F.W. (1929c). Mosquito notes. VIII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 20(3), 321–343.
Evans, A.M. (1934). Further notes on African anophelines, with a description of a new group of Myzomyia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 28(4), 549–570.
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.
Hamon, J. (1954a). Contribution a l’étude des Culicides de la région de Bobo Dioulasso (Haute-Volta). Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée, 29(5–6), 573–587.
Harrison, B.A. (1973c). Notes on some mosquito types deposited in France. Mosquito Systematics, 5(4), 277–279.
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. (1949a). Anopheline pupae (Diptera, Culicidae) from West Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 43(1), 23–25.
Service, M.W. (1960c). A new species and variety of Anopheles from Nigeria, with notes on Anopheles flavicosta Edwards and Aedes (Ae.) wendyae Service. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B: Taxonomy, 29(7–8), 85–90.
Service, M.W. (1977). A new Anopheles (Dipt., Culicidae) from Nigeria together with a note on An. brohieri Edwards. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 71(2), 233–236.
Stone, A., & Knight, K.L. (1957c). Type specimens of mosquitoes in the United States National Museum. VI. Miscellaneous genera, addenda and summary. (Diptera, Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 47(6), 196–202.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles brohieri species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/brohieri, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
