Anopheles vinckei De Meillon, 1942

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Ignace Henri Vincke

Type locality: Congo River [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: Locality unknown (LU)

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

All Anopheles vinckei DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon1942: 87 (M, F*, L)

Segerman 1990: 53 (type information)

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

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1942). New Nematocera from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 5, 87–98.

Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.

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.

Segerman, J. (1990). A list of the type specimens of Culicidae housed in the Department of Medical Entomology at the South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg. Mosquito Systematics, 22(1), 53–56.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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