AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: George Leonard Rhys Hancock
Type locality: Bulambuli, Uganda
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 hancocki DNA sequences
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].
