AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: house inhabitant (L)
Type locality: Zungeru [Northern Provinces], 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
All Anopheles domicolus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES:
Edwards 1916: 363 (F*)
Evans 1938: 214 (F*, L)
De Meillon 1947b: 110 (F*, L; ? = longipalpus)
Adam et al. 1956: 100 (M*, F*, P, E*; to variety)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 107 (F*, L*; to species)
White 1980: 118 (unjustified emendation to domicolus)
Zavortink 1987: 2 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. gingeroi Corradetti & Archetti 1947: 677 (L). Type locality: Gingero, SW Ethiopia. Type depository: LU
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Adam, J.-P., Chwatt, L.J.B., & Hamon, J. (1956). Contribution à l’étude des Culicidae (Diptères) de la région éthiopienne: Description du mâle et de quelques variations de la femelle et des premiers stades d’Anopheles domicolus Edwards, 1916. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 49(1), 100–108.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Edwards, F.W. (1916). Eight new mosquitoes in the British Museum collection. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 6(4), 357–364.
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. 343pp.
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.
White, G.B. (1980). Chapter 8. Culicidae. In R.W. Crosskey (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (pp. 114–148). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles domicolus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/domicolus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
