Anopheles cydippis De Meillon, 1931

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: flirtatious Athenian maiden.

Type locality: [Richards Bay], Zululand, Angola

Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Isl.), Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon 1931a: 318 (L*)

Evans 1938: 386 (P, L*, E*)

Lips 1962: 108 (to species)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 253 (M, F*, P, L*, E*)

Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 28 (distribution)

Segerman 1990 (type information)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. entebbiensis Evans 1938: 388 (L; as variety). Type locality: Entebbe, Uganda (LSTM). References: De Meillon 1947b: 241 (synonymy).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1931a). Illustrated keys to the full-grown larvae adults of South African anopheline mosquitoes. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 4(28), 275–375.

Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.

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.

Lips, M. (1962). Anopheles du Congo (ex Belge) 7. Quelques espèces des groupes Cellia et Neocellia. Références-récoltes-répartition et importance médicale actuelle. Rivista di malariologia, 23(2), 107–134.

Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.

Segerman, J. (1990). A list of the type specimens of Culicidae housed in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg. Mosquito Systematics, 22(1), 53–56.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles cydippis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/cydippis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].