AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: crested feeler (L); palpus.
Type locality: : Kafanchan, Kagoro Hills of Jos Plateau, Nigeria
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Nigeria
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Service 1977: 233 (F*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Service, M.W. (1977). A new Anopheles (Dipt., Culicidae) from Nigeria together with a note on An. brohieri Edwards. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 71(2), 233–236.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles cristipalpis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/cristipalpis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
