Anopheles hancocki Edwards, 1929

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: George Leonard Rhys Hancock

Type locality: Bulambuli, Uganda

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

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 hancocki DNA sequences

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1929c: 322 (M, F; theileri variety)

Evans 1934: 552 (M; to species)

De Meillon 1947b: 137 (M*, F*, L*, E*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Edwards, F.W. (1929c). Mosquito notes. VIII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 20(3), 321–343.

Evans, A.M. (1934). Further notes on African anophelines, with a description of a new group of Myzomyia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 28(4), 549–570.

De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.

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