AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall
Type locality: Salisbury, Mashonaland [Southern Rhodesia]
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 sequence
All Anopheles marshallii DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
(Theobald) 1903a: 77 (F*; Pyretophorus)
De Meillon et al. 1936 (taxonomy, morphology)
De Meillon 1947b: 145 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
Peters 1955b: 97 (F*; taxonomy)
Chauvet 1962: 1145 (A)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 152 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; synonymy)
White 1975: 315, 317 (neireti Ventrillon incorrectly associated with this species as neireti Blanchard, an invalid combination; distribution)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Lambert 1979 (taxonomy)
Lambert 1981 (taxonomy)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pitchfordi Giles
1904c: 34 (F*; Pyretophorus; as subspecies). Type locality: 80 miles north of Eshowe, Zululand [KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK). References: De Meillon 1947b: 151 (F*, P, L*).
syn. transvaalensis Carter
1910a: 237 (F*; Pyretophorus). Type locality: Leydsdorp, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK). References: Evans 1938: 180 (synonymy).
syn. pseudocostalis Theobald
1910c: 41 (F*; Pyretophorus). Type locality: Bihe, Angola (NHMUK)
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Chauvet, G. (1962). Variabilité geographique chez les femelles d’Anopheles mascarensis De Meillon, 1947. Absence d’A. marshalli Theobald, 1929 à Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 55(6), 1145–1156.
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., Evans, A.M., & Leeson, H.S. (1936). The characters of Anopheles marshalli Theobald and A. marshalli var. pitchfordi Giles in the adult, larval and pupal stages. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 30(1), 45–55.
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.
Peters, W. (1955b). New Anophelini from the southern highlands of Tanganyika and notes on some other members of the genus Anopheles Meigen (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 24(5–6), 95–103.
Theobald, F.V. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
White, G.B. (1975). Notes on a catalogue of the Ethiopian Region. Mosquito Systematics, 7(4), 303–344.
Service, M.W. (1976a). Contribution to the knowledge of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Gabon. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(3), 259–263.
Lambert, D.M. (1979). Anopheles marshallii (Theobald) is a complex of species. Mosquito Systematics, 11(3), 173–178.
Lambert, D.M. (1981). Cytogenetic evidence of a possible fourth cryptic species within the taxon Anopheles marshallii (Theobald) (Diptera: Culicidae) from Northern Natal. Mosquito Systematics, 13(2), 168–175.
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.
Carter, H.F. (1910a). A new anopheline from South Africa; Pyretophorus transvaalensi, sp. nov. The Entomologist, 43(568), 237–238.
Theobald, F.V. (1910c). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World. (Vol. 5). London, England:. British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles marshallii species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/marshallii, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
