AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: J. Rageau
Type locality: Oliga, Cameroon
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
Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Republic of the Congo
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Mattingly & Adam 1954: 55 (F*; as species)
Adam & Mattingly 1956: 734 (M*, F*, L*, E*; to subspecies)
Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (F*, L*; from syn. with smithi)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Adam, J.-P., & Mattingly, P.F. (1956). Note sur la morphologie et la biologie d’Anopheles (Neomyzomyia) smithi var. rageaui Mattingly (P.F.) et Adam (J.-P.) 1954. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, 49(4), 734–747.
Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., & Geoffroy, B. (1999). Afro-tropical anopheline mosquitoes. III. Description of three new species: Anopheles carnevalei sp. nov., An. hervyi sp. nov., and An. dualaensis sp. nov., and resurrection of An. rageaui Mattingly and Adam. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 15(4), 552–558.
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.
Mattingly, P.F., & Adam, J.P. (1954). A new species of cave-dwelling anopheline from the French Cameroons. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 48(1), 55–57.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles rageaui species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/rageaui, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
