AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Amharic (Ethiopian language).
Type locality: Babo village (7°42'45 N, 36°58' E) outside Jimma, Ethiopia
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Ethiopia
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Hunt, Wilkerson & Coetzee 2013: 264 (M, F*, P*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Unti, O. (1941). Anofelinos do vale do Rio Paraiba, Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) strodei Root 1926, com a descrição de tres variedades novas. Serviço público de profilaxia en Malaria, 33, 3–18.
Faran, M.E. (1980). Mosquito studies (Diptera: Culicidae). XXXIV. A revision of the Albimanus section of the subgenus Nyssorhynchus of Anopheles. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 15(7), 1–215.
Sallum, M.A.M., Foster, P.G., dos Santos, C.L.S, Flores, D.C., Motoki, M.T., & Bergo, E.S. (2010). Resurrection of two species from synonymy of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) strodei Root, and characterization of a distinct morphological form from the Strodei Complex (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of Medical Entomology, 47(4), 504–526.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles amharicus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/amharicus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
