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Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex

Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Avenue, Parktown, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Vector Control Reference Laboratory, Centre for Occupational Tropical and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, 1 Modderfontein Road, Sandringham, Johannesburg 2131, South Africa
Malaria Entomology Research Unit, School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, 7 York Avenue, Parktown, Johannesburg 2001, South Africa Vector Control Reference Laboratory, Centre for Occupational Tropical and Hospital Infections, National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service, 1 Modderfontein Road, Sandringham, Johannesburg 2131, South Africa
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Museum Support Center, 4210 Silver Hill Rd, Suitland, Maryland, 20746, USA
Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Scienze di Sanità Pubblica, Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Malaria Research and Training Centre, University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali
Eck Institute for Global Health, Department of Biological Sciences, 317 Galvin Life Sciences Bldg, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 46556, USA
Diptera Subgenus Cellia morphology taxonomy systematics description

Abstract

Two new species within the Anopheles gambiae complex are here described and named. Based on molecular and bionomical evidence, the An. gambiae molecular "M form" is named Anopheles coluzzii Coetzee & Wilkerson sp. n., while the "S form" retains the nominotypical name Anopheles gambiae Giles. Anopheles quadriannulatus is retained for the southern African populations of this species, while the Ethiopian species is named Anopheles amharicus Hunt, Wilkerson & Coetzee sp. n., based on chromosomal, cross-mating and molecular evidence.

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