Anopheles aruni Sobti, 1968

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Mr. Arun (collector).

Type locality: Kaburi Kikombe, Zanzibar [Tanzania], East Africa

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

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DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Tanzania (Zanzibar).

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IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Sobti 1968: 481 (M*, F*, E)

De Meillon et al. 1977: 657 (taxonomy of aruni)

Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)

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., Eeden, G.J.V., Coetzee, L., Coetzee, M., Meiswinkel, R., Toit, C.L.N.D., & Hansford, C.F. (1977). Observations on a species of the Anopheles funestus subgroup, a suspected exophilic vector of malaria parasites in northeastern Transvaal, South Africa. Mosquito News, 37(4), 657–661.

Dia, I., Guelbeogo, M.W., & Ayala, D. (2013). Advances and perspectives in the study of the malaria mosquito Anopheles funestus. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles Mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 197–220). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

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.

Sobti, S.K. (1968). A new species of the Anopheles funestus complex (Diptera: Culicidae) from Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 38, 481–483.

 

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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