AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: dark veins (L); comparable to funestus
Type locality: Shamva, Southern Rhodesia
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
All Anopheles fuscivenosus DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Leeson 1930: 125 (M, F*)
De Meillon 1947b: 123 (M, F)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4, 146 (M, F*; to species)
Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 18 (distribution)
Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
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.
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.
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.
Leeson, H.S. (1930). A new variety of Anopheles funestus Giles, from Southern Rhodesia. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 21(2), 125–126.
Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera. Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles fuscivenosus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/fuscivenosus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
