AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Lucien van Hoof
Type locality: Grand Grotte at Thysville, Leopoldville, Belgian Congo [Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo]
Type depository: Musee Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Brussels, Belgium (CMT)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles vanhoofi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Wanson & Lebied 1945: 118 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 63 (M*, F*, P, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
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.
Irish, S.R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R.W., & Coetzee, M. (2020). Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747(3), 401–449.
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.
Wanson, M., & Lebied, B. (1945). Un nouvel Anophèle cavernicole du Congo belge: Anopheles (Myzomyia) vanhoofi spec. nov. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines (Brussels), 39(1), 118–129.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles vanhoofi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/vanhoofi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
