Anopheles caliginosus De Meillon, 1943

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: n.s. [dark (L)]

Type locality: Jadotville [Katanga], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa (SAIM)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles caliginosus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon 1943: 91 (F; coustani subspecies)

De Meillon 1947b: 47 (F*)

Hopkins 1952: 195 (taxonomy)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 38 (F*; to species)

Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 13 (distribution)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1943). New records, and new species of Nematocera (Diptera) from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 6, 90–113.

De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.

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.

Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles caliginosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/caliginosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].