AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: many rings (L); on legs
Type locality: Taveta, 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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1930a: 291 (M, F*; as species)
Evans 1934: 569 (to variety)
Parent & Vincke 1945: 24 (P*)
De Meillon 1947b: 79 (F*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 79 (synonymy)
White 1980: 120 (from syn. with natalensis; as form)
Brunhes et al. 1998: 397 (from subspecies of natalensis)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. puselis De Meillon
1934: 269 (M*, P; natalensis variety). Type locality: Tzaneen, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (SAIM). References: Evans 1938: 116 (synonymy).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., Manga, L., & Geoffroy, B . (1998a). Anophèles Afrotropicaux. IV. Mise au point sur le complexe Anopheles moucheti, réhabilitation d’An. multicinctus et d’An. garnhami basilewskyi (Diptera: Culicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 34(4), 397–405.
De Meillon, B. (1934). Entomological studies. Studies on insects of medical importance in South Africa. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 6(33), 249–307.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Edwards, F.W. (1930a). Mosquito notes. IX. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 21(3), 287–306.
Evans, A.M. (1934). Further notes on African anophelines, with a description of a new group of Myzomyia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 28(4), 549–570.
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.
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.
Parent, M., & Vincke, I. (1945). Notes entomologiques (Diptera: Anophelinae). Recueil des travaux des sciences et médicas Congo Belge, 4, 23–24.
White, G.B. (1980). Chapter 8. Culicidae. In R.W. Crosskey (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (pp. 114–148). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles multicinctus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/multicinctus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
