Anopheles ranci Grjebine, 1953

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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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 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 ranci DNA sequences

 

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].