AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: uniformly colored (L); dark
Type locality: Kabila, Kwango Province [Leopoldville], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles concolor DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1938 in Evans 1938: 56-58 (M*, F*)
Vincke & Leleup 1949a (M*, L*, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 47 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 15 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1938). In A.M. Evans (Ed.), Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, II: Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.
Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.
Kyalo, D., Amratia, P., Mundia, C.W., Mbogo, C.M., Coetzee, M., & Snow, R.W. (2017). A geo-coded inventory of anophelines in the Afrotropical Region south of the Sahara: 1898–2016. Wellcome Open Research, 2, 57.
Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.
Vincke, I., & Leleup, N. (1949a). Description de la pupa, de la larve et de l’oeuf de Anopheles concolor Edwards. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines (Brussels), 42(3–4), 245–247.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles concolor species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/concolor, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
