AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [involved, entwined, enfolded, interwoven (L)]
Type locality: 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
Anopheles implexus COI: GQ165768, GQ165788
All Anopheles implexus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1903b: 34 (F; Christya)
Evans 1938: 88 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 55 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
Lambrecht 1954: 204 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 48 (M*, F*, L*, E*; distribution)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 15 (distribution)
Harbach & Kitching 2015 (from subg. Anopheles to subgenus Christya)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. henrardi Wolfs
1945b: 174 (F*; as variety). Type locality: Coquilhatville, Belgian Congo [Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the Congo] (CMT). References: De Meillon 1947b: 55 (synonomy).
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.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.
Harbach, R.E., & Kitching, I.J. (2015). The phylogeny of Anophelinae revisited: Inferences about the origin and classification of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae). Zoologica Scripta, 45(1), 34–47.
Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.
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.
Lambrecht, F.L. (1954). Anopheles (Christya) implexus, Theobald. Description de la variete locale de la vallee du Mosso (Urundi). Revue zoologique Africaine (supplement botanique), 50(3–4), 204–209.
Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.
Theobald, F.V. (1903b). Report on a collection of mosquitoes and other flies from equatorial East Africa and the Nile provinces of Uganda. Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society 7(3), 33–42.
Wolfs, J. (1945b). Anopheles (Anopheles) implexus var. henrardi var. nov. Recueil des travaux des sciences et Médicas Congo Belge, 3, 174–176.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles implexus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/implexus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
