AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Swahili peoples of East Africa
Type locality: Goshi, Molindi District, Kenya
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
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles swahilicus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Kenya, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Gillies 1964b: 67 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Gillies, M.T. (1964b). A new Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) from the East African coastal lowlands. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 33(3–4), 67–70.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles swahilicus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/swahilicus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
