Anopheles cameroni De Meillon & Evans, 1935

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: William Alexander James Cameron

Type locality: Fishhoek, near Capetown, Cape Province [Republic of South Africa]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Republic of South Africa

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon & Evans 1935: 91 (F*)

De Meillon 1947b: 90 (F*)

Coetzee & du Toit 1979 (M*, F*, L*, P*; taxonomy)

Townsend 1990: 57 (type dep.)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Coetzee, M., & du Toit, C.L.N. (1979). A full description of the adult, pupa and larva of Anopheles (Cellia) cameroni De Meillon and Evans, from the Cape Province, South Africa. Mosquito Systematics, 11(4), 291–299.

De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.

De Meillon, B., & Evans, A.M. (1935). Two new anophelines from South Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 29(1), 91–94.

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.

Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles cameroni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/cameroni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].