AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [brown foot (L); poss. ref. to leg color].
Type locality: Bihe, Angola
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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Isl.), Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Theobald 1910c: 64 (F*; Nyssorhynchus)
Davey 1941: 5 (P*, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 105 (M*, F*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Davey, T.H. (1941). The larva and pupa of Anopheles brunnipes Theobald. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 35(1), 5–8.
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
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.
Theobald, F.V. (1910c). A monograph of the Culicidae of the World. (Vol. 5). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles brunnipes species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/brunnipes, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
