AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Botha De Meillon
Type locality: Tzaneen, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa]
Type depositories: 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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1933: 266 (M, F*)
Evans 1938: 263 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 175 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distribution);
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 21 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
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. (1933). Anopheles demeilloni sp. n., a new name for Anopheles transvaalensis of authors. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 27(2), 265–269.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
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.
Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles demeilloni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/demeilloni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
