Anopheles symesi Edwards, 1928

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Cecil Bernard Symes.

Type locality: Kisumu, Kenya

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

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

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

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1928a: 269 (F)

Evans 1938: 77 (M, F*, P*, L*)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 41 (M, F*, P, L; distribution)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Edwards, F.W. (1928a). Mosquito notes. VII. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 18(3), 267–284.

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

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