Anopheles erythraeus Corradetti, 1939

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Eritrea (L)  

Type locality: Ghinda, 3,000 ft, Eritrea

Type depository: Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Rome, Italy (ISS)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles erythraeus DNA sequences

 

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Eritrea. 

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Corradetti 1939c: 287 (L*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Corradetti, A. (1939c). Su alcune larve di Anopheles rinvenutea Ghinda (Eritrea) e descrizione di una nuova larva: Anopheles (Myzomyia) erythraeus n. sp. Rivista di parassitologia, 3(4), 287–292.

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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