Anopheles cinctus (Newstead & Carter, 1910)

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: girded, belted (L); rings on legs.

Type locality: Broomassie [Ashanti, Ghana]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

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

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Newstead & Carter 1910: 381 (F*; Cellia)

Evans 1938: 126 (M, F*, P, L*)

De Meillon 1947b: 63 (M*, F*, L*)

Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 16 (distribution)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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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.

Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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.

Newstead, R., & Carter, H.F. (1910). Descriptions of a new genus and three new species of anopheline mosquitos. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 4(3), 377–383.

Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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