AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: not stated [dark, gloomy (L)].
Type locality: Wadi [el] Natrun [south of Alexandria], Egypt
Type depository: Zoologisches Museum der Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany (ZM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Israel (and Gaza Strip and West Bank), Jordan, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Isl.), Malawi, Mozambique, Oman, Republic of the Congo, Republic of South Africa, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Dönitz 1902: 53 (F*)
Kirkpatrick 1925b: 44 (M*, F, P*, L*; as mauritianus)
de Meillon 1936b (E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 47 (F, P, L, E*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 41 (F*, P, E*)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 14 (distribution)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Glick 1992: 129 (distribution)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution; western Palearctic).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. subtilis Pressat 1905: 48 (A*). Type locality: Ismailia [Suez Canal], Egypt (NE).
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1936b). Entomological studies. Studies on insects of medical importance in South Africa. Part III. The eggs of some South African Anophelines. Part II. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 7(38), 131–132.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Dönitz, W. (1902). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Anopheles. Zeitschrift für Hygiene, 41, 15–88.
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.
Glick, J.I. (1992). Illustrated key to the female Anopheles of southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 24(2), 125–153.
Kirkpatrick, T.W. (1925b). The mosquitoes of Egypt. Egyptian Government Anti-Malaria Commission.
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.
Pressat, A. (1905). Le paludisme et les moustiques (prophylaxie). Libraires de l’Academie de Medecine.
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.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles tenebrosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/tenebrosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
