AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Frederick Smith
Type locality: Sierra Leone
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
Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1905b: 101 (F)
De Meillon 1947b: 85 (M*, F*, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 53 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; synonymy)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (F*, L*; taxonomy)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa; as s.s. and syn. cavernicolus)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pallidopalpi Theobald
1907: 57 (M*; Feltinella). Type locality: Mount Aureol, Sierra Leone (NHMUK).
syn. cavernicolus Abonnenc
1954: 288 & 1956: 802 (M*, F*). Type locality: Dalaba, French Guinea (EMD). References: Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (taxonomy; syn. with smithii).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Abonnenc, E. (1954). Sur un anophèle cavernicole de la Guinée: Anopheles cavernicolus n. sp. (Diptera-Culicidae). Bulletin et mémoires de l’École Préparatoire de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Dakar (Parasitologie), 2, 288–290.
Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., & Geoffroy, B. (1999). Afro-tropical anopheline mosquitoes. III. Description of three new species: Anopheles carnevalei sp. nov., An. hervyi sp. nov., and An. dualaensis sp. nov., and resurrection of An. rageaui Mattingly and Adam. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 15(4), 552–558.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
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.
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.
Theobald, F.V. (1905b). New Culicidae from the west coast of Africa. The Entomologist, 38(503), 101–104, 154–158.
Theobald, F.V. (1907). 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 smithii species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/smithii, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
