Anopheles smithii Theobald, 1905

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Frederick Smith

Type locality: Sierra Leone

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

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles smithii DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Theobald 1905b: 101 (F)

De Meillon 1947b: 85 (M*, F*, L*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 53 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; synonymy)

Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)

Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (F*, L*; taxonomy)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa; as s.s. and syn. cavernicolus)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. pallidopalpi Theobald

1907: 57 (M*; Feltinella). Type locality: Mount Aureol, Sierra Leone (NHMUK).

syn. cavernicolus Abonnenc

1954: 288 & 1956: 802 (M*, F*). Type locality: Dalaba, French Guinea (EMD). References: Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (taxonomy; syn. with smithii).

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Abonnenc, E. (1954). Sur un anophèle cavernicole de la Guinée: Anopheles cavernicolus n. sp. (Diptera-Culicidae). Bulletin et mémoires de l’École Préparatoire de Médecine et de Pharmacie de Dakar (Parasitologie), 2, 288–290.

Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., & Geoffroy, B. (1999). Afro-tropical anopheline mosquitoes. III. Description of three new species: Anopheles carnevalei sp. nov., An. hervyi sp. nov., and An. dualaensis sp. nov., and resurrection of An. rageaui Mattingly and Adam. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 15(4), 552–558.

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

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.

Service, M.W. (1976a). Contribution to the knowledge of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Gabon. Cahiers ORSTOM, Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(3), 259–263.

Theobald, F.V. (1905b). New Culicidae from the west coast of Africa. The Entomologist, 38(503), 101–104, 154–158.

Theobald, F.V. (1907). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 5). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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