Anopheles dureni Edwards, 1938

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Albert Nicholas Duren. 

Type locality: Kibubu River, Bayaka District, Kwango Province, Belgian Congo [Democratic Republic of the Congo]

Type depository: Musee Royal de I'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Brussels, Belgium (CMT)

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

All Anophles dureni DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Angola, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda. 

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Edwards 1938: 123 (M*, F*). In Evans 1938. 

De Meillon 1947b: 65 (M*, F*, L*, E*)

Vincke & Leleup 1949b: 253 (bionomics)

Ribeiro & da Cunha Ramos 1975: 16 (distribution)

Brunhes et al. 1997: 180 (F*; taxonomy)

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.

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. (1938). In A.M. Evans (Ed.), Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region, II: Anophelini adults and early stages. London, England: British Museum (Natural History).

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.

Ribeiro, H., & da Cunha Ramos, H. (1975). Research on the mosquitoes of Angola. VI. The genus Anopheles Meigen 1818 (Diptera, Culicidae). Check-list with new records, keys to the females and larvae, distribution and bioecological notes. García de Orta: Serie de Zoologica, 4(1), 1–40.

Vincke, I., & Leleup, N. (1949b). Notes biologiques et ethologiques sur les Anophèles dendrophiles du Katanga. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 42(3–4), 250–258.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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