AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: yellow (L); wing costal margin.
Type locality: Baro [Northern Provinces], Nigeria
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands), Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1911a: 142 (F)
De Meillon 1947b: 131 (M, F*, L*)
Mattingly 1949a: 24 (P*)
Hanney 1959: 169 (M*, F*, L, P*; bionomics)
Coz et al. 1960: 742 (M*, F*, L*; taxonomy)
Service 1960c: 89 (M, F, L, P; taxonomy)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 316 (distribution)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 22 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Coz, J., Grjebine, A., & Hamon, J. (1960). Anopheles flavicosta Edwards, 1911 de Madagascar et d’Afrique. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 53(4), 742–751.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Edwards, F.W. (1911a). Some new West African species of Anopheles (sensu lato), with notes on nomenclature. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2(2), 141–143.
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.
Hanney, P.W. (1959). Variations in Anopheles flavicosta Edwards from northern Nigeria. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 28(11–12), 169–174.
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.
Mattingly, P.F. (1949a). Anopheline pupae (Diptera, Culicidae) from West Africa. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 43(1), 23–25.
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.
Service, M.W. (1960c). A new species and variety of Anopheles from Nigeria, with notes on Anopheles flavicosta Edwards and Aedes (Ae.) wendyae Service. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B: Taxonomy, 29(7–8), 85–90.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles flavicosta species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/flavicosta, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
