AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Harold Holmes King
Type locality: Wakite, Livingstone Range, Tanganyika [Tanzania]
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 kingi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Christophers 1923a: 1011 (F*)
Evans 1938: 117 (M, F*, P*, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 71 (M*, F*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Christophers, S.R. (1923a). A new east African anopheline (A. kingi) related to A. natalensis, Hill and Hayden, and A. watsonii, Leicester. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 10(4), 1008–1019.
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).
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 kingi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/kingi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
