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. 2020 Feb 13;19(1):70.
doi: 10.1186/s12936-020-3144-9.

Key to the females of Afrotropical Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Maureen Coetzee  1   2
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Key to the females of Afrotropical Anopheles mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

Maureen Coetzee. Malar J. .

Abstract

Background: In 1987, Gillies and Coetzee published a pictorial key for the morphological identification of adult female mosquitoes. Since then, several new species of anopheline mosquitoes have been described.

Methods: The 1987 key to adult female mosquitoes was used as the template for the current key.

Results: New species described in the literature over the past 32 years have been included. A list of all currently known Afrotropical species is provided. Anopheles stephensi is included for the first time as occurring on the African continent.

Conclusions: An updated key for the morphological identification of Afrotropical anopheline species is presented.

Keywords: Anopheles; Identification; Key; Morphology.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no competing interests.

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Fig. 1
Mosquito wing showing the simplified venation numbering system of Evans [25]
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