AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: René Jean Gilbert Caron
Type locality: Matouridi (cave) “Moyen-Congo,” Republic of the Congo
Type depository: Institut d'Enseignement et de Recherches Tropicales, Bondy, Seine, France. Now Centre de Faunistique de l'O.R.S.T.O.M. a Bondy, 93-France (IERT)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
None
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Gabon, Republic of the Congo.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Adam 1961 (F*)
Pajot & Adam 1964: 626 (M*, F*, P*, L, E*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Adam, J.P. (1961). Anopheles caroni n. sp. (Diptera, Culicidae) anophèle cavernicole nouveau de la République du Congo. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 54(4), 714–717.
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.
Pajot, F.X., & Adam, J.P. (1964). Notes morphologiques sur Anopheles caroni Adam, 1961 (Diptera-Culicidae). Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique, 57(3), 626–637.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles caroni species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/caroni, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
