AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Ignace Henri Vincke
Type locality: Congo River [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
Type depository: Locality unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles vinckei DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
De Meillon1942: 87 (M, F*, L)
Segerman 1990: 53 (type information)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1942). New Nematocera from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 5, 87–98.
Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.
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.
Segerman, J. (1990). A list of the type specimens of Culicidae housed in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg. Mosquito Systematics, 22(1), 53–56.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles vinckei species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/vinckei, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
