Anopheles kingi Christophers, 1923

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Harold Holmes King

Type locality: Wakite, Livingstone Range, Tanganyika [Tanzania]

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

All Anopheles kingi DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Christophers 1923a: 1011 (F*)

Evans 1938: 117 (M, F*, P*, L*)

De Meillon 1947b: 71 (M*, F*, L*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Christophers, S.R. (1923a). A new east African anopheline (A. kingi) related to A. natalensis, Hill and Hayden, and A. watsonii, Leicester. Indian Journal of Medical Research (Calcutta), 10(4), 1008–1019.

De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.

Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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