AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Mario Coluzzi
Type locality: Soukourani, Niono District (270km NE of Bamako; 14°13'1399 N, 06°03'0283 W), Mali
Type depository: U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C., United States (USNM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Coetzee & Wilkerson 2013: 249 (M, F*, P*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Lutz, et al. 2020 (bionomics)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Coetzee, M., Hunt, R.H., Wilkerson, R., Della Torre, A., Coulibaly, M.B., & Besansky, N.J. (2013). Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex. Zootaxa, 3619(3), 246–274.
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.
Lutz, E. K., Ha, K. T., & Riffell, J. A. (2020). Distinct navigation behaviors in Aedes, Anopheles and Culex mosquito larvae. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(7).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles coluzzii species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/coluzzii, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
