AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Kenya
Type locality: Taveta, Kenya
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 keniensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1931a: 130 (M*, F*; marshalli variety)
Evans 1933: 266 (to species)
De Meillon 1947b: 185 (M*, F*, P, L, E)
Gillies 1955: 160 (E*)
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. (1931a). Notes on African anophelines. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 25(1), 129–143.
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.
Gillies, M.T. (1955). Notes on the eggs of some east African Anopheles. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 49(2), 158–160.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles keniensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/keniensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
