Anopheles natalensis (Hill & Haydon, 1907)

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Natal, Republic of South Africa

Type locality: Natal [KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa]

Type depository: Durban Museum, Natal, Republic of South Africa (DMN)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles natalensis DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

(Hill & Haydon) 1907: 152 (M, F*, L*; Myzorhynchus)

Evans 1938: 110 (M*, F*, L*)

De Meillon 1947b: 77 (M*, F*, L*)

O’Connor 1967 (distribution)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 79 (M*, F*, P, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. aureosquamiger Theobald

1907: 73 (F; Pyretophorus). Type locality: Pretoria [Transvaal, Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

syn. puselis De Meillon

1934: 269 (M*, P; natalensis variety). Type locality: Tzaneen, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (SAIM). References: Evans 1938: 116 (synonymy).

 

CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1934). Entomological studies. Studies on insects of medical importance in South Africa. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 6(33), 249–307.

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. (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.

Hill, E., & Haydon, L.G. (1907). A contribution to the study of the characteristics of larvae of species of anophelinae in South Africa. Annals of the Natal Government Museum, 1, 111–157.

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.

O’Connor, C.T. (1967). The distribution of anopheline mosquitoes in Ethiopia. Mosquito news 27(1), 42–54.

Theobald, F.V. (1907). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 5). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles natalensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/natalensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].