AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: black (L); melanistic
Type locality: [Bathurst], Gambia
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, Benin, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, São Tomé & Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
(Theobald) 1903a: 76 (F; Pyretoforus costalis variety melas)
De Meillon 1947b: 203 (taxonomy)
Gelfand 1954: 6 (taxonomy)
Coluzzi 1964: 204 (M*, P, L, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 220 (F*, L*, E*; bionomics)
Mahon et al. 1976: 25 (molecular taxonomy)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Mattingly 1977: 326 (taxonomy)
Sinka et al. 2010: 117 (bionomics, review, distribution, niche model)
Becker et al. 2010: 326 (distribution, bionomics)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Becker, N., Petrić, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C., & Kaiser, A. (2010). Mosquitoes and their control (2nd ed.). Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag.
Coluzzi, M. (1964). Morphological divergences in the Anopheles gambiae complex. Rivista di malariologia, 43(4–6), 197–232.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Gelfand, H.M. (1954). The anopheline mosquitoes of Liberia. West African Medical Journal, 3, 80–88.
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.
Mahon, R.J., Green, C.A., & Hunt, R.H. (1976). Diagnostic allozymes for routine identification of adults of the Anopheles gambiae complex (Diptera, Culicidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research, 66(1), 25–31.
Mattingly, P.F. (1977). Names for the Anopheles gambiae complex. Mosquito Systematics, 9(3), 323–328.
Service, M.W. (1976a). Contribution to the knowledge of the mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Gabon. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 14(3), 259–263.
Sinka, M.E., Bangs, M.J., Manguin, S., Coetzee, M., Mbogo, C.M., Hemingway, J., . . . Hay, S.I. (2010a). The dominant Anopheles vectors of human malaria in Africa, Europe and the Middle East: Occurrence, data, distribution maps and bionomic précis. Parasites and Vectors, 3(117), 1–34.
Theobald, F.V. (1903a). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 3). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles melas species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/melas, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
