Anopheles leesoni Evans, 1931

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Herbert Sefton Leeson

Type locality: Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]

Type depository: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom (LSTM)

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 leesoni DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES: 

Evans 1931b: 546 (M, P, L; funestus subspecies)

Evans 1938: 168 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)

De Meillon 1947b: 129 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)

Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 18 (distribution)

Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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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.

Dia, I., Guelbeogo, M.W., & Ayala, D. (2013). Advances and perspectives in the study of the malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles Mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 197–220). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

Evans, A.M. (1931b). A new subspecies of Anopheles funestus Giles, from Southern Rhodesia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 25(3–4), 545–549.

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.

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