AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [separate, distinct (L)]
Type locality: Luapula River, below Chingola’s Village, NE Rhodesia [Zambia]
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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Newstead & Carter 1911b: 234 (A; Pyretophorus)
De Meillon 1947b: 111 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 20 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. melanocosta Newstead & Carter 1911b: 236 (A; Pyretophorus distinctus var.). Type locality: Luapula River, below Chingola’s Village, NE [Northern] Rhodesia [Zambia] (NHMUK). Reference: Evans 1934: 549 (syn.).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Evans, A.M. (1934). Further notes on African anophelines, with a description of a new group of Myzomyia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 28(4), 549–570.
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.
Newstead, R., & Carter, H.F. (1911b). On some new species of African mosquitos (Culicidae). Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 5(2), 233–244.
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 distinctus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/distinctus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
