AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Mr. Arun (collector).
Type locality: Kaburi Kikombe, Zanzibar [Tanzania], East 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
Tanzania (Zanzibar).
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Sobti 1968: 481 (M*, F*, E)
De Meillon et al. 1977: 657 (taxonomy of aruni)
Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B., Eeden, G.J.V., Coetzee, L., Coetzee, M., Meiswinkel, R., Toit, C.L.N.D., & Hansford, C.F. (1977). Observations on a species of the Anopheles funestus subgroup, a suspected exophilic vector of malaria parasites in northeastern Transvaal, South Africa. Mosquito News, 37(4), 657–661.
Dia, I., Guelbeogo, M.W., & Ayala, D. (2013). Advances and perspectives in the study of the malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles Mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 197–220). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
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.
Sobti, S.K. (1968). A new species of the Anopheles funestus complex (Diptera: Culicidae) from Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 38, 481–483.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles aruni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/aruni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
