AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated
Type locality: Sunyani [Ashanti], Gold Coast [Ghana]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Jupp 1996
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan De Nova Island), Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, Sudan and South Sudan, Togo.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1935a: 136 (M, F)
Edwards 1941: 345 (M*, F)
Hopkins 1952: 330 (L*)
Rickenbach et al. 1976: 97 (distribution)
Jupp 1996 (M*, F*; key)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. gediensis Edwards
1941: 345 (M, F). Type locality: Gede, near Mombasa, [Coast], Kenya (NHMUK). Distribution: Kenya. References: van Someren, Teesdale, & Furlong 1955: 490 (L?); Mattingly 1956a: 44 (lectotype designation). Etymology: Gede, near Mombasa, Kenya.
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1935a). Mosquito notes. XII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 26(2), 127–136.
Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Jupp, P.G. (1996). Mosquitoes of southern Africa. Culicinae and Toxorhynchitinae. Hartebeespoort, Republic of South Africa: Ekogilde.
Mattingly, P.F. (1956a). Lectotypes of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the British Museum. Part II. Genera Toxorhynchites, Aëdes (Subgenera Aedimorphus, Banksinella), Culex (Subgenera Neoc- ulex, Culiciomyia, Mocthogenes, Culex). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Series A: General Entomology, 31(4–6), 37–44.
Rickenbach, A., Eouzan, J.-P., Ferrara, L., & Bailly-Choumara, H. (1976). Données nouvelles sur la presence, la frequence et la repartition des Toxorhynchitinae et Culicinae (Diptera, Culicidae) au Cameroun. 2. Genres Eretmapodites et Culex. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(2), 93–100.
CITE THIS PAGE
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