AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology.: D’thala (Emirate of Dhala, Federation of South Arabia).
Type locality: D’thala, Hardeba, Sulek, and Nobat, Aden Hinterland [Yemen]
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Eastern Palearctic - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Adult
WRBU - Anopheles Subgenera and Series - Indomalaya - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles dthali DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Afghanistan, Algeria, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel (and Gaza Strip and West Bank), Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES:
Patton 1905: 627 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Christophers & Puri 1931b
Christophers 1933: 188 (M*, F*, P, L, E)
De Meillon 1947b: 107 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Mattingly & Knight 1956: 95 (taxonomy)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distribution)
Rodhain et al. 1977 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. wardi Leeson & Theodor, 1948. Type locality: Socotra [Yemen] (NHMUK). References: Leeson & Theodor, 1948: 222 (M, F*, P, L*; as variety); Mattingly & Knight 1956: 95 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Christophers, S.R. (1933). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Diptera. Vol. IV. Family Culicidae. Tribe Anophelini. London, England: Taylor and Francis.
Christophers, S.R., & Puri, I.M. (1931b). Notes on some anopheline mosquitoes collected in Sierra Leone including differentiation of Anopheles dthali Patton (Mediterranean) as a distinct species from Anopheles rhodesiensis Theo. (Ethiopian). Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 18(4), 1133–1166.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
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.
Leeson, H.S., & Theodor, O. (1948). Mosquitos of Socotra. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 39(2), 221–229.
Mattingly, P.F., & Knight, K.L. (1956). The mosquitoes of Arabia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), 43(3), 91–141.
Patton, W.S. (1905). The culicid fauna of the Aden Hinterland, their haunts and habits. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 16(4), 623–637.
Rodhain, F., & Gaxotte, P. (1977). An entomological survey on the mosquitoes of Wuvulu Island, Papua-New Guinea. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 8(1), 77–79.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles dthali species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/dthali, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
