AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: n.s. [confused (L)].
Type locality: Umtali and Sinoia, Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
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DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Evans & Leeson 1935: 40 (M, F*, P*, L*, E*)
De Meillon 1947b: 123 (M, F*, P, L*, E*)
Gillies 1962: 81 (new); 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. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Evans, A.M., & Leeson, H.S. (1935). The funestus series of Anopheles in Southern Rhodesia, with description of a new variety. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 29(1), 33–47.
Gillies, M.T. (1962). A new species of Anopheles funestus complex (Diptera: Culicidae) from east Africa. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society B, 31(7–8), 81–86.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles confusus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/confusus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
