Anopheles harperi Evans, 1936

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: J.O. Harper (collector)

Type locality: Kitale [Rift Valley], Kenya

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 Anophelee harperi DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Djibouti, Eritrea, Kenya, Uganda.

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Evans 1936: 533 (M, F*, P, L*)

De Meillon 1947b: 135 (M, F*, L*)

De Meillon & Hardy 1953: 31 (F)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

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.

De Meillon, B., & Hardy, F. (1953). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. IV. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 16(1), 17–35.

Evans, A.M. (1936). Two new anopheline mosquitoes from Kenya. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 30(4), 533–540.

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