Anopheles salbaii Maffi & Coluzzi, 1958

AFROTROPICAL & PALEARCTIC REGIONS

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Etymology: Tuc Salbai [a small stream in Somalia]

Type locality: Salbai, Further Giuba Region, Somalia

Type depository: Istituto di Malariologia "Ettore Marchiafava", Rome, Italy (IMEM); Malaria Institute, Amani, Tanzania (MIT); 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 salbaii DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Somalia

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Maffi & Coluzzi 1958: 48 (M*, F*, P*, L*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distribution)

Rodhain et al. 1977 (distribution)

Townsend 1990: 130 (type information)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

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, 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.

Maffi, M., & Coluzzi, M. (1958). Anopheles (Neocellia) salbaii n. sp. morfología et ambiente. Rivista di malariologia, 37(1–3), 45–55.

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

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).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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