Anopheles faini Leleup, 1952

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Alexandre Marie Alphonse Jean Fain

Type locality: Yolohafiri Grotto, Mont Hoyo Kibali-Ituri [Orientale], Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: Musee Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Brussels, Belgium (CMT)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

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

All Anopheles faini DNA  sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Leleup 1952: 151 (M*, F*, P*, L)

Laarman 1959: 147 (M*, F*, P*, L*; as vanthieli)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 56 (M*, F*, P, L*; synonym; vanthieli)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

syn. vanthieli Laarman

1958: 18 (F). Type locality: Irangi, Kivu, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo] (CMT). References: Leleup & Zaghi 1960: 925 (to subspecies); Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 56 (to synonymy).

 

CITED REFERENCES

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, 1–343.

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.

Laarman, J.J. (1958). Anopheles Neomyzomyia van thieli n. sp. Folia Scientifica Africae Centralis, 4, 18.

Laarman, J.J. (1959). A new species of Anopheles from a rain-forest in eastern Belgian Congo. Tropical and Geographical Medicine, 11(2), 147–156.

Leleup, N. (1952). Un Anophèle cavernicole nouveau du Kibali-Ituri: Anopheles Feini n. sp. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 46(1–2), 151–158.

Leleup, N., & Zaghi, A. (1960). Apropos of Anopheles (Myzomyia) faini Leleup and of A. faini subsp. van Thieli Laarman. Annales de la Société Belge de Médecine Tropicale, 40, 925–931.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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