AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Henry Francis Carter
Type locality: Johannesburg, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans & De Meillon 1933: 276 (M, F*, L*; as demeilloni variety)
De Meillon 1947b: 179 (M, F*, P, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4, 185 (F*, L; to species)
Townsend 1990: 58 (type dep.); Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
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CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
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.
Evans, A.M., & De Meillon, B. (1933). Notes on Anopheles demeilloni (transvaalensis) and Anopheles garnhami in South Africa with descriptions of new varieties of these species. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 27(2), 271–282.
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.
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 carteri species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/carteri, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
