AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [probably after Henry Wellcome / Wellcome Laboratories]
Type locality: Baro River, Sudan
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 wellcomei DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1904b: 64 (F*)
De Meillon 1947b: 171 (M*, F*, P, L, E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. ugandae Evans
1934: 553 (F, P*, L*). Type locality: King’s Lake Area, Kampala, Uganda (NHMUK). Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda. References: De Meillon 1947b: 114 (F, P, L); Gillett 1955: 36 (M; tax.); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 176 (F*); Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 20 (distribution); Knight 1978b: 11 (to species in error); Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa). Etymology: Uganda.
ssp. syn. milesi De Meillon & Evans
1935: 93 (F*). Type locality: Victoria Falls, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] (NHMUK). References: De Meillon 1947b: 175 (? = michaeli De Meillon & Leeson); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4 (synonomy).
ssp. ungujae White
1975: 316 (F). Type locality: Kibonde, Nzungu, Zanzibar [Tanzania] (NHMUK). Distribution: Tanzania (Zanzibar). Etymology: Unguja, Swahili name for Zanzibar.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles wellcomei species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/wellcomei, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
