AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Percy Cyril Claude Garnham
Type locality: Kericho, Kenya
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 garnhami DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES (full citations below)
Edwards 1930a: 292 (M, F*)
Evans 1938: 278 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Corradetti 1940b: 141 (A*, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 183 (M*, F*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. walshi Evans & De Meillon
1933: 280 (M*, F*, P*, L*; as variety). Type locality: Magoeba’s Kloof, Tzaneen, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK). References: De Meillon 1947b: 185 (A*, L*; syn. suggested).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
ssp. basilewskyi Leleup
1957: 69 (M, F). Type locality: Mount Meru [Northeast Tanzania] (CMT). Distribution: Tanzania. References: Leleup 1960: 402 (M*, F*); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4 (syn.); Brunhes et al. 1998a: 397 (from syn. of garnhami). Etymology: P. Basilewsky.
CITED REFERENCES
Corradetti, A. (1940b). Note sull’Anopheles garnhami d’Abissinia. Rivista di parassitologia, 4(3), 141–146.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
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. (1930a). Mosquito notes. IX. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 21(3), 287–306.
Evans, A.M., & De Meillon, B. (1933). Notes on Anopheles demeilloni (transvaalensis) and Anopheles garnhami in South Africa with descriptions of new varieties of these species. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 27(2), 271–282.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
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 garnhami species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/garnhami, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
