AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: scaly (L); a very scaly species
Type locality: British Central Africa [Malawi]
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, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands), Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1901a: 167 (F*)
Macfie & Ingram 1922 (F*)
Evans 1938: 379 (M, F*, P*, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 239 (M*, F*, L*)
Duznetsov 1971: 441 (distribution; Arabian Peninsula)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. tananariviensis Ventrillon
1906c: 198 (M, F; Cellia). Type locality: Tananarive, Madagascar (MNHP, NHMUK). References: Townsend 1990: 140 (type information).
syn. arnoldi Stephens & Christophers
1908: 175 (A; Cellia). Type locality: Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK).
syn. pretoriensis Gough
1910: 117 (A; Cellia). Type locality: Onderstepoort, Transvaal [Republic of South Africa] (LSTM).
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.
Duznetsov, R.L. (1971). Recognition of Anopheles coustani Laveran, 1900 and Anopheles squamosus Theobald, 1901 in the Yemen Arab Republic. Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parizarnye bolezni, 40(4), 441–443.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Gough, L.H. (1910). On a collection of Anopheles made at Onderstepoort in the autumn of 1909. Report of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist, Union of South Africa 1908–09, 115–121.
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.
Macfie, J.W.S., & Ingram, A. (1922). On the genital armature of the female mosquito. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 16(2), 157–188.
Stephens, J.W.W., & Christophers, S.R. (1908). The practical study of malaria and other blood parasites (3rd ed.). London, England: Willams and Norgate.
Theobald, F.V. (1901a). A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes (Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
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.
Ventrillon, E. (1906c). Cellia tananariviensis, Culicide nouveau de Madagascar. 9. Genre de la sous-famille des Anophelinae. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 12(4), 198–202.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles squamosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/squamosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
