AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Ernest Gerald Gibbins
Type locality: Fort Portal [Western Region], Uganda
Type depository: 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
All Anopheles gibbinsi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1935: 469 (M, F, P, L*, E)
De Meillon 1947b: 149 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4, 160 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; to species)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa; also as gibbonsi [sic])
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. kibena Peters
1955b: 100 (F*). Type locality: Njombe, Tanganyika [Tanzania] (NHMUK). References: Gillies & de Meillon 1968: 160 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Evans, A.M. (1935). Notes on anophelines I. Description of Anopheles marshalli var. gibbinsi from Uganda. II. The characters of A. maculipennis var. messeae in Wirral, England. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 29(4), 469–473.
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, 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.
Peters, W. (1955b). New Anophelini from the southern highlands of Tanganyika and notes on some other members of the genus Anopheles Meigen (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 24(5–6), 95–103.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles gibbinsi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/gibbinsi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
