AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: long feeler [palpus] (L)
Type locality: Zomba, Nyasaland [Malawi]
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 longipalpis DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1903a: 37 (F; Myzomyia)
De Meillon 1947b: 141 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 22 (distribution)
Koekemoer et al. 2009 (Type A, Type C)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (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.
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.
Koekemoer, L.L., Misiani, E.A., Hunt, R.H., Kent, R.J., Norris, D.E., & Coetzee, M. (2009). Cryptic species within Anopheles longipalpis from southern Africa and phylogenetic comparison with members of the An. funestus group. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 99(1), 41–49.
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.
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. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles longipalpis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/speciesname, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
