AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Hans Richard Paul Ziemann
Type locality: Wuri, Cameroon
Type depository: Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles ziemanni DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Grünberg 1902: 550 (F)
Evans 1938: 70 (F*, P, L, E*);
De Meillon 1947b: 48 (F*, P, L, E*)
Fox 1958: 216 (taxonomy)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 42 (F*, E*)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Trari et al. 2002: 331 (distribution; Morocco)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution, western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Fox, R.M. (1958). Man-biting mosquitoes in coastal Liberia. The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 7(2), 215–220.
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.
Grünberg, K. (1902). Ein neuer Anopheles aus Westafrika, Anopheles ziemanni nov. spec. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 25(677), 550–551.
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.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Service, M.W. (1976a). Contribution to the knowledge of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Gabon. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(3), 259–263.
Trari, B., Dakki, M., Himmi, O., & El Agbani, M.A. (2002). Le moustiques (Diptera: Culicidae) du Maroc: Revue bibliographique (1916–2001) et inventaire des espèces. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 96(4), 329–334.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles ziemanni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ziemanni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
