Anopheles buxtoni Service, 1958

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Patrick Alfred Buxton

Type locality: Oku, 20 miles north of Kumbo, Bamenda Province, Cameroon

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

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Cameroon

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Service 1958: 176 (M*, P, L)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 70 (M*, P, L*)

Townsend 1990: 55 (lectotype designation)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

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. 343pp.

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.

Service, M.W. (1958). A new Anopheles from the Southern Cameroons, Anopheles buxtoni sp. nov. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 52(2), 176–180.

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: British Museum (Natural History).

 

 

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