Anopheles erepens Gillies, 1958

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: crawl up (L); ref. to larva on plants above waterline

Type locality: South Pare District, Kihurio, Tanganyika [Tanzania]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

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 erepens DNA sequences

 

 

Associated Pathogens

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Kenya, Tanzania. 

Distribution

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Gillies 1958: 9 (M*, F*, P, L, E*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 174 (M*, F*, L*, E*; taxonomy)

Gillies & Coetzee 1987: 95 (from subspecies of wellcomei)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Gillies, M.T. (1958). Notes on the biology of a new subspecies of Anopheles wellcomei (Diptera: Culicidae) from east Africa, and on the distribution of related forms. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society A, 33(1–3), 9–14.

Gillies, M.T., & Coetzee, M. (1987). A supplement to the Anophelinae of Africa south of the Sahara (Afrotropical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 55, 1–143.

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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