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A check list of the Culicine mosquitos of Tanganyika, with notes on their distribution in the territory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

E. C. Cunningham van Someren
Affiliation:
Division of Insect-borne Diseases, Medical Research Laboratory, Nairobi, Kenya

Extract

The names of 156 Culicine mosquitos that are known to occur in Tanganyika are listed, together with a further three species of undetersting status. Systematic notes are included for species that show interesting taxonomic features, and locality records and the source of the information are given for each species. The distribution of the species in relation to zoogeographic and climatic regions if summarised in a table.

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Research Paper
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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