AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Pierre-Paule Grassé
Type locality: Antongil, near Maroantsetra, Tamatave, Madagascar
Type depository: Institut Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Tananarive, Madagascar (IRSM)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
All Anopheles grassei DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Grjebine 1953b: 203 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 187 (M*, F*, P, L*, E*; synonymy)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
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.
Grjebine, A. (1953b). Une nouvelle espece d’anophele de Madagascar [Dipt. Culicidae]. Naturaliste Malgache, 5(2), 203–209.
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.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles grassei species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/grassei, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
