AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: flirtatious Athenian maiden.
Type locality: [Richards Bay], Zululand, Angola
Type depository: Location Unknown (LU)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
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].
