AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: André Ranc
Type locality: Ambodisoka, District Marolambo and Anosibe, District Moramanga, Madagascar
Type depository: Institut Recherche Scientifique de Madagascar, Tananarive, Madagascar (IRSM); 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
Madagascar (includes Glorioso and Juan de Nova Islands)
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Grjebine 1953a: 488 (M*, F*, P*, L*)
Townsend 1990: 127 (type information)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Grjebine, A. (1953a). Observations sur les nematoceres vulnerants de Madagascar regions de Majunga et de la Mandraka. Mémoires de l’Institut Scientifique de Madagascar E, 4, 443–502.
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.
Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Anopheles ranci species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ranci, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
