AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Dancalia Region, northeast Africa
Type locality: Dobi Valley, Dancalia [Ethiopia]
Type depositories: Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Rome, Italy (ISS), 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
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Corradetti 1939b: 277 (M, F, P, L)
Corradetti 1940a (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Edwards 1941: 446 (M, F, P, L)
De Meillon 1947b: 231 (M*, F*, L*)
Mara 1948: 76 (E*)
Townsend 1990: 65 (type information)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Corradetti, A. (1939b). Una nuova specie di Anopheles Rinvenuta in Dancalia: Anopheles (Neocellia) dancalicus n. sp. Nota preliminare. Rivista di parassitologia, 3(3), 277–278.
Corradetti, A. (1940a). Descrizione dell’Anopheles (Neocellia) dancalicus. Rivista di parassitologia, 4(1), 31–44.
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. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles dancalicus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/dancalicus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
