Anopheles seydeli Edwards, 1929

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Charles Henri Victor Seydel

Type locality: La Lunga, Katanga, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

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 seydeli DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1929c: 322 (A; theileri variety)

De Meillon 1947b: 161 (M*, F*, L*; to species)

Gillies 1955: 160 (E*)

O’Connor 1967 (distribution)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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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.

Edwards, F.W. (1929c). Mosquito notes. VIII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 20(3), 321–343.

Gillies, M.T. (1955). Notes on the eggs of some east African Anopheles. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 49(2), 158–160.

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.

O’Connor, C.T. (1967). The distribution of anopheline mosquitoes in Ethiopia. Mosquito News, 27(1), 42–54.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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