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Ancala africana Muller et al. 2012
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, AL-al Bayt University P. O. Box 130040, Al-Mafraq 25113, Jordan.
- 2. Department of Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering, Faculty of Science and Art, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid 22110, Jordan. E-mail: amrz @ just. edu. jo; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4778 - 2308 * Corresponding author. E-mail: hazt @ aabu. edu. jo; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1732 - 8603
Description
Ancala africana (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1832)
Ancala africana is widely distributed through African countries, recorded from Angola, Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Republic of South Africa, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Zaire, Uganda (Crosskey & Crosskey 1955). Ancala africana shows a high ability to transmit trypanosomiasis (Mulandane et al. 2020). It was recorded from Saudi Arabia (Müller et al. 2012a).
Notes
Published as part of Al-Talafha, Hazem A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2024, Tabanidae Fauna (Order: Diptera) of the Arab Countries in the Middle East, pp. 53-85 in Ecologica Montenegrina 71 on page 70, DOI: 10.37828/em.2024.71.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13248935
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- Journal article: 10.37828/em.2024.71.7 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Muller et al.
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Tabanidae
- Genus
- Ancala
- Species
- africana
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ancala africana et, 2012 sec. Al-Talafha & Amr, 2024
References
- Crosskey, R. W. & Crosskey, M. E. (1955) The horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Nigeria and the British Cameroons. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 106 (pt. 8), 341 - 374. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 2311.1955. tb 01271. x
- Mulandane, F. C., Snyman, L. P., Brito, D. R., Bouyer, J., Fafetine, J., Van Den Abbeele, J. & Neves, L. (2020) Evaluation of the relative roles of the Tabanidae and Glossinidae in the transmission of trypanosomiases in drug resistance hotspots in Mozambique. Parasites & Vectors, 13 (1), 1 - 16. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 13071 - 020 - 04087 - 1
- Muller, G. C., Hogsette, Jr. & Kravchenko, V. D. (2012 a) New records for the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Saudi Arabia with remarks on ecology and zoogeography. Acta Parasitology et Medica Entomologica Sinica, 19 (1), 36 - 38.