AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Freetown (Sierra Leone)
Type locality: Kissy Bridge, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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 Anophleles freetownensis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Senegal.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1925c: 461 (M, F*; marshalli variety)
Evans 1929b: 422 (M*; as marshalli variety)
De Meillon 1947b: 179 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Evans, A.M. (1925c). A new variety of A. marshalli from Sierra Leone. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 19(4), 461–462.
Evans, A.M. (1929b). Notes on certain varieties of Anopheles marshalli Theobald. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 23(3), 415–425.
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 freetownensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/freetownensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
