AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Jacques Schwetz
Type locality: Kalunga, Katanga, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
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
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mali, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans 1934: 555 (F*; as species)
De Meillon 1947b: 159 (M*, F*, P, L*, E; as michaeli)
Peters 1955b: 101 (F*; to variety)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 123 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; to species)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 22 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. michaeli De Meillon & Leeson
1940: 63 (M, F*, P*, L*). Type locality: Ndola, Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] (SAIM). References: Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 123 (synonymy).
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.
De Meillon, B., & Leeson, H.S. (1940). Notes on Ethiopian Anophelini. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 31(1), 61–67.
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.
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.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles schwetzi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/schwetzi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
