AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Cecil Bernard Symes.
Type locality: Kisumu, 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
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1928a: 269 (F)
Evans 1938: 77 (M, F*, P*, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 41 (M, F*, P, L; distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1928a). Mosquito notes. VII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 18(3), 267–284.
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.
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 symesi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/symesi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
