AFROTROPICAL REGION
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
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
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
None
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].
