AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: crawl up (L); ref. to larva on plants above waterline
Type locality: South Pare District, Kihurio, Tanganyika [Tanzania]
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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Kenya, Tanzania.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Gillies 1958: 9 (M*, F*, P, L, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 174 (M*, F*, L*, E*; taxonomy)
Gillies & Coetzee 1987: 95 (from subspecies of wellcomei)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa; as wellcomei subspecies).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Gillies, M.T. (1958). Notes on the biology of a new subspecies of Anopheles wellcomei (Diptera: Culicidae) from east Africa, and on the distribution of related forms. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society A, 33(1–3), 9–14.
Gillies, M.T., & Coetzee, M. (1987). A supplement to the Anophelinae of Africa south of the Sahara (Afrotropical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 55, 1–143.
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.
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