AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Pare Dist., Tanzania
Type locality: Kihurio, South Pare District, Tanganyika [Tanzania]
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
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Republic of South Africa, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Gillies 1962: 82 (M*, F*, P, L, E)
Dia et al. 2013 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution; Africa)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
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. (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.
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 parensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/parensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
