AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Mascarene Island
Type locality: Diego Suarez area, Madagascar
Type depository: South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa (SAIM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Comoros, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands), Mayotte.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
De Meillon 1947a: 116 (M, F)
Grjebine & Chauvet 1961: 119 (P*, L*)
Chauvet 1962: 1145 (F*)
Coetzee 1994b (E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. neireti Blanchard 1906: 188 (A; Myzomyia funesta var.). Type locality: Tanarive, Madagascar (FMP).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Chauvet, G. (1962). Variabilité geographique chez les femelles d’Anopheles mascarensis De Meillon, 1947. Absence d’A. marshalli Theobald, 1929 à Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, 55(6), 1145–1156.
Coetzee, M. (1994b). The eggs of two anopheline mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) endemic to Madagascar. African Entomology, 2(1), 72–74.
De Meillon, B. (1947a). New records and species of biting insects from the Ethiopian region. II. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 10(1), 110–124.
Grjebine, A., & Chauvet, G. (1961). Position systématique d’Anopheles mascarensis de Meillon, 1947 et description de la larvae et de la nymphe. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, 54, 119–128.
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 mascarensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/mascarensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
