AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Donald Bagster Wilson
Type locality: Amani, Tanganyika [Tanzania]
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 wilsoni DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Kenya, Tanzania.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1934: 560 (M*, F*, P, L)
Evans 1938: 96 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Gillies 1955: 158 (E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Evans, A.M. (1934). Further notes on African anophelines, with a description of a new group of Myzomyia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 28(4), 549–570.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Gillies, M.T. (1955). Notes on the eggs of some east African Anopheles. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 49(2), 158–160.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles wilsoni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/wilsoni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
