Anopheles comorensis Brunhes, Le Goff & Geoffroy, 1997

AFROTROPICAL REGION

Family
Subfamily
Genus
Subgenus
Series

 

Etymology: Comoros Island

Type locality: Sada, Mayotte Island, Comores archipelago

Type depository: Laboratoire de Taxonomie des Vecteurs, ORSTOM, Montpellier, France (LVTO)

TAXONOMIC KEYS

None

 

WRBU LUCID KEYS

 

adult mosquito key icon

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

None

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Comoros

Distribution

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Brunhes, Le Goff & Geoffroy 1997: 178 (F*)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

None

 

CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., & Geoffroy, B. (1997). Anophèles afrotropicaux. I. Descriptions d’espèces nouvelles et changements de statuts taxonomiques (Diptera: Culicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 33(2), 172–183.

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