AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: little streams (L)
Type locality: Muzari River, Sinoia, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
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, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Seychelles, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leeson 1935: 70 (M, F, P, L; funestus variety)
Evans 1938: 167 (A, P, L, E*; as garnhamellus)
De Meillon 1947b: 125 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 18 (distribution)
Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. garnhamellus Evans & Leeson
1937: 384 (A*, P, L; as variety). Type locality: Kisumu, Kenya (LSTM). References: De Meillon 1947b: 125 (synonymy)
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Dia, I., Guelbeogo, M.W., & Ayala, D. (2013). Advances and perspectives in the study of the malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles Mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 197–220). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Evans, A.M., & Leeson, H.S. (1937). Notes on variation in Anopheles rivulorum Leeson in East Africa, with description of a new variety. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 31(3), 383–386.
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.
Leeson, H.S. (1935). Another anopheline of the funestus series from Southern Rhodesia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 29(1), 69–71.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles rivulorum species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/rivulorum, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
