Anopheles azevedoi Ribeiro, 1969

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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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 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

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Namibia, Republic of South Africa.

Distribution

 

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].