AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Paul Adelson François Walravens
Type locality: Elisabethville [Katanga], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]
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
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles walravensi DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1930a: 290 (M, F)
De Meillon 1947b: 173 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
Irish et al. 2020 (distr.; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
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.
Edwards, F.W. (1930a). Mosquito notes. IX. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 21(3), 287–306.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles walravensi species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/walravensi, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
