AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: rock pools, ruari
Type locality: Ruia Estate, PO M’Sonneddi, Salisbury [Mashonaland], Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
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
Angola, Eswatini, Namibia, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Edwards 1940: 93 (M, F, P*, L*)
De Meillon 1947b: 95 (M, F*, L*)
Kyalo et al. 2017 (distribution; sub-Saharan Africa)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
De Meillon, B. (1947b). The Anophelini of the Ethiopian geographical region. Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 10(49), 1–272.
Edwards, F.W. (1940). A new plain-winged Anopheles from Rhodesia. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 34(2), 93–96.
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 ruarinus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/ruarinus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
