Anopheles symesi Edwards, 1928

Coetzee, Maureen, 2022, Literature review of the systematics, biology and role in malaria transmission of species in the Afrotropical Anopheles subgenus Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae), Zootaxa 5133 (2), pp. 182-200 : 191

Anopheles symesi Edwards, 1928

TYPE LOCALITY: Kisumu, Kenya .

DESCRIPTION:

Wing length: 5.5 mm.

Wing ( Fig. 8a ): All pale scales yellow. Subcostal and preapical pale spots present; apical pale fringe spot extending from R 2 to R 4+5; basal 0.5 of CuA entirely pale.

Maxillary palpus: Shaggy, with four pale bands.

Legs ( Fig. 8b ): Apex of hindtibia dark or with a few pale scales; hindtarsomeres 1 and 2 entirely dark, 3 largely or entirely pale, 4 pale, 5 pale basally or entirely dark.

LARVAL HABITAT: Dense papyrus swamps along the shores of Lake Victoria.

ADULT BIOLOGY: Very little known. Rarely captured in habitations. In 2009, Osman et al. (2014) collected a single female by pyrethrum-spray catch in South Darfur State of Sudan.

DISTRIBUTION: Confined mainly to a narrow belt from southern Sudan to the northern shores of Lake Victoria and Lake Albert and as far south as Katanga in the DRC ( Gillies & de Meillon 1968).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Anopheles symesi: a, wing; b, hindleg (from Gillies & de Meillon 1968).