Anopheles wellcomei Theobald, 1904

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [probably after Henry Wellcome / Wellcome Laboratories]

Type locality: Baro River, Sudan

Type depository: 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 wellcomei DNA sequences

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Theobald 1904b: 64 (F*)

De Meillon 1947b: 171 (M*, F*, P, L, E*)

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

Irish et al. 2020 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

ssp. ugandae Evans

1934: 553 (F, P*, L*). Type locality: King’s Lake Area, Kampala, Uganda (NHMUK). Distribution: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda. References: De Meillon 1947b: 114 (F, P, L); Gillett 1955: 36 (M; tax.); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 176 (F*); Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 20 (distribution); Knight 1978b: 11 (to species in error); Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa). Etymology: Uganda.

ssp. syn. milesi De Meillon & Evans

1935: 93 (F*). Type locality: Victoria Falls, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] (NHMUK). References: De Meillon 1947b: 175 (? = michaeli De Meillon & Leeson); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4 (synonomy).

ssp. ungujae White

1975: 316 (F). Type locality: Kibonde, Nzungu, Zanzibar [Tanzania] (NHMUK). Distribution: Tanzania (Zanzibar). Etymology: Unguja, Swahili name for Zanzibar.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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