AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Patrick Alfred Buxton
Type locality: Oku, 20 miles north of Kumbo, Bamenda Province, Cameroon
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
Cameroon
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Service 1958: 176 (M*, P, L)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 70 (M*, P, L*)
Townsend 1990: 55 (lectotype designation)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
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.
Service, M.W. (1958). A new Anopheles from the Southern Cameroons, Anopheles buxtoni sp. nov. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 52(2), 176–180.
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 buxtoni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/buxtoni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
