Anopheles radama De Meillon, 1943

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: not stated [poss. Radàma Islands]

Type locality: [Diego Suarez], Madagascar

Type depository: South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa (SAIM)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Adult

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WRBU - Genera - Afrotropical - Larva

 

Exemplar DNA sequences

All Anopheles radama DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Isl.)

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

De Meillon 1943: 90 (M, F*)

Doucet 1951b: 58 (M*, F*, L*)

Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

De Meillon, B. (1943). New records, and new species of Nematocera (Diptera) from the Ethiopian region. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 6, 90–113.

Doucet, J. (1951b). Les anophélinés de la Région Malgache. Madagascar: Publications de l’Institut de Recherche Scientifique Tananarive-Tsimbazaza.

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