NEOTROPICAL REGION
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 - Genera - Global - Larva
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Adult
WRBU - Genera - Neotropical - Larva
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Brazil
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].
