AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: J.O. Harper (collector)
Type locality: Kitale [Rift Valley], 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 Anophelee harperi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1936: 533 (M, F*, P, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 135 (M, F*, L*)
De Meillon & Hardy 1953: 31 (F)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
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., & Hardy, F. (1953). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. IV. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 16(1), 17–35.
Evans, A.M. (1936). Two new anopheline mosquitoes from Kenya. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 30(4), 533–540.
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 harperi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/harperi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
