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A new Variety of Anopheles funestus, Giles, from Southern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

H. S. Leeson
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Extract

While investigating the Anophelini of Southern Rhodesia in connection with the research on blackwater fever conducted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, an undescribed variety of Anopheles funestus, Giles, was taken in the dry season. Nine males and eight females were collected from May to August 1927, near Shamva, and one male and one female in July 1928, in the Fungwi Native Reserve. All were caught out-of-doors except two females, one of which was taken in a shed constructed of grass and the other in a native hut. The remainder were taken in close association with the earth; in surface drains, caves and crevices in rocks. No specimens were taken in or near European habitations, but all in undeveloped country. No adults were bred out, so that the following description is based on individuals captured “wild.” The larva is unknown.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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