Anopheles christyi (Newstead & Carter, 1911)

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Cuthbert Christy

Type locality: Uganda

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Newstead & Carter 1911b: 238 (F; Neocellia?)

Evans 1938: 291 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)

De Meillon 1947b: 205 (M*, F*, L*, E*)

Lambrecht & Leleup 1951: 328 (M*, F*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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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. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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.

Lambrecht, F.L., & Leleup, N. (1951). Note concernant la variablilite d’Anopheles (Pyretophorus) christyi Newstead et Carter. Revue zoologique Africaine (supplement botanique), 44(4), 328–332.

Newstead, R., & Carter, H.F. (1911b). On some new species of African mosquitos (Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 5(2), 233–244.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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