AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.k. (in German) [dark, poorly known (L)]
Type locality: Kamerun [Cameroon]
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
All Anopheles obscurus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Grünberg, 1905 380 (F*; Myzorhynchus)
Evans 1938: 79 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 49 (M*, F*, L*, E*)
Lacan 1956: 150 (distribution)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 45 (M*, F*, L*, E*; distribution)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 15 (distribution)
Service 1976a (distribution; Gabon)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa).
CURRENT SYNONYMS
syn. strachanii Theobald
1907: 85 (F*; Myzorhynchus). Type locality: Lagos [Nigeria] Type repository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK).
syn. nowlini Evans
1932: 98 (M, F, P, L). Type locality: Firestone Plantation, Liberia Type repository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK). References: White 1980: 116 (from obscurus variety).
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.
Evans, A.M. (1932). Notes on African mosquitoes. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 26(1), 85–108.
Evans, A.M. (1938). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. II. Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
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.
Grünberg, K. (1905). Zur Kenntnis der Culicidenfauna von Kamerun und Togo. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 29(12), 377–390.
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.
Lacan, A. (1956). Les Anopheles de l’Afrique Equatoriale Franҫaise et lur repartition. Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée, 33(1–2), 150–170.
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.
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.
Theobald, F.V. (1907). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World (Vol. 5). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
White, G.B. (1980). Chapter 8. Culicidae. In R.W. Crosskey (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region (pp. 114–148). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles obscurus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/an_obscurus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
