Anopheles vernus Gillies & De Meillon, 1968

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [of spring (L)]

Type locality: Giant’s Castle Reserve, Drakensberg Mountains, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal], [Republic of] South Africa

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

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 vernus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Republic of South Africa

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 89 (F*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

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