Anopheles gibbinsi Evans, 1935

AFROTROPICAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus
Series
Group

 

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 LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

 larval key icon

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].