AFROTROPCIAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [burning, fiery hot (L)].
Type locality: Durban, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa]
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
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda,Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1905g: 17 (M, F*; Pyretophorus)
Evans 1938: 100 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 68 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; keys)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. pyretophoroides Theobald
1907: 48 (M*, F*; Myzomyia). Type locality: Pretoria [Transvaal, Republic of South Africa] (NHMUK).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Evans, A.M. (1938). 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.
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.
Theobald, F.V. (1905g). New Culicidae from India, Africa, British Guiana, and Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology, 1, 17–36.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles ardensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ardensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
