AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Oveng, Cameroon
Type locality: Oveng (02o10'N, 10o30'E), near Campo, Cameroon
Type depository: Institute of Agricultural Research for Development, Cameroon-Yaounde (IRAD)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
None
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Awono-Ambene, Kengne, Simard, Antonio-Nkondjio & Fontenille 2004: 563 (F*, L*)
Antonio-Nkondjio et al. 2009b (L; bionomics)
Antonio-Nkondjio & Simard 2013 (bionomics, molecular taxonomy, review)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Antonio-Nkondjio, C., & Simard, F. (2013). Highlights on Anopheles nili and Anopheles moucheti, malaria vectors in Africa. In S. Manguin (Ed.), Anopheles mosquitoes: New insights into malaria vectors (pp. 221–238). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
Antonio-Nkondjio, C., Ndo, C., Costantini, C., Awono-Ambene, P., Fontenille, D., & Simard, F. (2009). Distribution and larval habitat characterization of Anopheles moucheti, Anopheles nili, and other malaria vectors in river networks of southern Cameroon. Acta Tropica, 112(3), 270–276.
Awono-Ambene, H.P., Kengne, P., Simard, F., Antonio-Nkondjio, C., & Fontenille, D. (2004). Description and bionomics of Anopheles (Cellia) ovengensis (Diptera: Culicidae), a new malaria vector species of the Anopheles nili group from South Cameroon. Journal of Medical Entomology, 41(4), 561–568.
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 ovengensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ovengensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
