Anopheles rachoui Galvão, 1952

NEOTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: René Guimarães Rachou

Type locality: Acude São Bento, Municip Santo Amaro, Bahia, and Paranaguá, Parana, Brazil

Type depository: Faculdade de Higiene e Saude Publica de Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, S.P., Brazil [Now Faculdade de Saude Publica] (FH)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles rachoui DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Brazil

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Galvão 1952: 69 (F*)

Belkin et al. 1971: 4 (taxonomy, lectotype designation)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Belkin, J.N., Schick, R.X., & Heinemann, S.J. (1971). Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). XXV. Mosquitoes originally described from Brazil. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 7(5), 1–64.

Galvão, A.B. (1952). Anopheles (Anopheles) rachoui, uma nova espécie do grupo Arribalzagia. Revista Brasileira de malariologia e doenças tropicais (Rio de Janeiro), 4(1), 69–74.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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