AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Alexandre Marie Alphonse Jean Fain
Type locality: Yolohafiri Grotto, Mont Hoyo Kibali-Ituri [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
Type depository: Musee Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Brussels, Belgium (CMT)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles faini DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leleup 1952: 151 (M*, F*, P*, L)
Laarman 1959: 147 (M*, F*, P*, L*; as vanthieli)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 56 (M*, F*, P, L*; synonym; vanthieli)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. vanthieli Laarman
1958: 18 (F). Type locality: Irangi, Kivu, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo] (CMT). References: Leleup & Zaghi 1960: 925 (to subspecies); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 56 (to synonymy).
CITED REFERENCES
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.
Laarman, J.J. (1958). Anopheles Neomyzomyia van thieli n. sp. Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis, 4, 18.
Laarman, J.J. (1959). A new species of Anopheles from a rain-forest in eastern Belgian Congo. Tropical and Geographical Medicine, 11(2), 147–156.
Leleup, N. (1952). Un Anophèle cavernicole nouveau du Kibali-Ituri: Anopheles Feini n. sp. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 46(1–2), 151–158.
Leleup, N., & Zaghi, A. (1960). Apropos of Anopheles (Myzomyia) faini Leleup and of A. faini subsp. van Thieli Laarman. Annales de la Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale, 40, 925–931.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles faini species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/faini, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
