Anopheles njombiensis Peters, 1955

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Njombe, Tanzania

Type locality: Njombe, Tanganyika [Tanzania]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles njombiensis DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Peters 1955b: 95 (F*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 168 (M, F*, P, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

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.

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles njombiensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/njombiensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].