Anopheles somalicus Rivola & Holstein, 1957

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Somalia

Type locality: Villabruzzi, Audegle, and Uebi Scebeli, Somalia

Type depository: Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches Tropicales, Bondy, Seine, France. Now Centre de Faunistique de l'O.R.S.T.O.M. a Bondy, 93-France [See SSC] (IERT); Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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 somalicus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Somalia

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Rivola & Holstein 1957: 382 (M*, P*, L*; as nili variety)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4, 87 (M*, F, P*, L*; to species)

Townsend 1990: 135 (type information)

Antonio-Nkondjio et al. 2009b (L; bionomics)

Antonio-Nkondjio & Simard 2013 (bionomics, molecular taxonomy, review)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Antonio-Nkondjio, C., & Simard, F. (2013). Highlights on Anopheles nili and Anopheles moucheti, malaria vectors in Africa. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 221–238). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

Antonio-Nkondjio, C., Ndo, C., Costantini, C., Awono-Ambene, P., Fontenille, D., & Simard, F. (2009). Distribution and larval habitat characterization of Anopheles moucheti, Anopheles nili, and other malaria vectors in river networks of southern Cameroon. Acta Tropica, 112(3), 270–276.

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.

Rivola, E., & Holstein, M.H. (1957). Note sur une variété d’Anopheles nili Theo. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, 50(3), 382–387.

Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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