Anopheles bwambae White, 1985

AFROTROPICAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus
Series
Complex

 

Etymology: Bwamba Co., Uganda

Type locality: Mongiro Semliki Forest, Bwamba County, Uganda

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

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Uganda

Distribution

 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

White 1985: 506 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)

Becker et al. 2010: 326 (distribution, bionomics)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.

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.

White, G.B. (1985). Anopheles bwambae sp. n., a malaria vector in the Semliki Valley, Uganda, and its relationships with other sibling species of the An. gambiae complex (Diptera: Culicidae). Systematic Entomology, 10(4), 501–522.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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