AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: André Marie Maurice Lacan
Type locality: La Mandraka, Manjakandriana District [Tananarive], Madagascar
Type depository: Institut Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Tananarive, Madagascar (IRSM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles lacani DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands).
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Grjebine 1953a: 483 (F*, P*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Grjebine, A. (1953a). Observations sur les nematoceres vulnerants de Madagascar regions de Majunga et de la Mandraka. Mémoires de l’Institut Scientifique de Madagascar E, 4, 443–502.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles lacani species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/lacani, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
