Anopheles ruarinus Edwards, 1940

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: rock pools, ruari

Type locality: Ruia Estate, PO M’Sonneddi, Salisbury [Mashonaland], Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles ruarinus DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Eswatini, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1940: 93 (M, F, P*, L*)

De Meillon 1947b: 95 (M, F*, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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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.

Edwards, F.W. (1940). A new plain-winged Anopheles from Rhodesia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 34(2), 93–96.

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 ruarinus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ruarinus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].