Anopheles dancalicus Corradetti, 1939

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Dancalia Region, northeast Africa

Type locality: Dobi Valley, Dancalia [Ethiopia]

Type depositories: Istituto Superiore de Sanita, Rome, Italy (ISS), Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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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

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Corradetti 1939b: 277 (M, F, P, L)

Corradetti 1940a (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Edwards 1941: 446 (M, F, P, L)

De Meillon 1947b: 231 (M*, F*, L*)

Mara 1948: 76 (E*)

Townsend 1990: 65 (type information)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Corradetti, A. (1939b). Una nuova specie di Anopheles Rinvenuta in Dancalia: Anopheles (Neocellia) dancalicus n. sp. Nota preliminare. Rivista di parassitologia, 3(3), 277–278.

Corradetti, A. (1940a). Descrizione dell’Anopheles (Neocellia) dancalicus. Rivista di parassitologia, 4(1), 31–44.

De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.

Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.

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.

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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