Anopheles azaniae Bailly-Choumara, 1960

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Azania (ancient name of NE Africa)

Type locality: British Somaliland [Somalia]

Type depository: Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches Tropicales, Bondy, Seine, France. Now Centre de Faunistique de l'O.R.S.T.O.M. a Bondy, 93-France [See SSC] (IERT)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles azaniae DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Bailly-Choumara 1960: 532 (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distr.)

Rodhain et al. 1977 (distr.)

Ahmed et al. 2011 (distr.; Saudi Arabia)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Ahmed, A.M., Shaalan, E.A., Aboul-Soud, M.A.M., Tripet, F., & Al-Khedhairy, A.A. (2011). Mosquito vectors survey in the Al-Ahsaa district of eastern Saudi Arabia. Journal of Insect Science, 11, 176.

Bailly-Choumara, H. (1960). Une espèce nouvelle d’Anopheles du golfe d’Aden, Anopheles (Myzomyia) azaniae. Notes morphologiques, systématiques et écologiques. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 53(3), 531–542.

Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.

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.

Rodhain, F., Boutonnier, A., & Coulanges, P. (1977). Bibliographie des Culicides de Madagascar. Archives des l’Instituts Pasteur de Madagascar, 46, 485–495.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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