AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: J. Fraga de Azevedo.
Type locality: Moçâmedes, Angola
Type depository: Museum, Escola Nacional de Saude Publica e de Medicina Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal (NML)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Namibia, Republic of South Africa.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Ribeiro 1969: 113 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. deaconi De Meillon & van Eeden
1976: 336 (M, F, P*, L*). Type locality: Voorsorg, Upington, Cape Province, South Africa [Republic of South Africa] (SAIM). References: White 1980: 117 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B., & van Eeden, G. (1976). Anopheles (Cellia) deaconi n. sp., from South Africa (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics Newsletter, 8(4), 335–342.
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.
Ribeiro, H. (1969). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. IV. Description of Anopheles (Cellia) azevedoi sp. nov. (Diptera, Culicidae). Anais da Escola Nacional de Saude Pública e de Medicina Tropical, 3(1–4), 113–123.
White, G.B. (1980). Chapter 8. Culicidae. In R.W. Crosskey (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (pp. 114–148). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles azevedoi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/azevedoi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
