Anopheles ardensis (Theobald, 1905)

AFROTROPCIAL REGION

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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 LUCID KEYS

 

 adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

 larval key icon

WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

adult mosquito key icon

WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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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].