AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Cuthbert Christy
Type locality: Uganda
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Newstead & Carter 1911b: 238 (F; Neocellia?)
Evans 1938: 291 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 205 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Lambrecht & Leleup 1951: 328 (M*, F*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
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).
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.
Lambrecht, F.L., & Leleup, N. (1951). Note concernant la variablilite d’Anopheles (Pyretophorus) christyi Newstead et Carter. Revue zoologique Africaine (supplement botanique), 44(4), 328–332.
Newstead, R., & Carter, H.F. (1911b). On some new species of African mosquitos (Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 5(2), 233–244.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles christyi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/christyi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
