Anopheles rageaui Mattingly & Adam, 1954

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: J. Rageau

Type locality: Oliga, Cameroon

Type depository: Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (NHMUK)

 

TAXONOMIC KEYS

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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 rageaui DNA sequences

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Republic of the Congo

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

Mattingly & Adam 1954: 55 (F*; as species)

Adam & Mattingly 1956: 734 (M*, F*, L*, E*; to subspecies)

Brunhes et al. 1999: 556 (F*, L*; from syn. with smithi)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

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CITED REFERENCES

Adam, J.-P., & Mattingly, P.F. (1956). Note sur la morphologie et la biologie d’Anopheles (Neomyzomyia) smithi var. rageaui Mattingly (P.F.) et Adam (J.-P.) 1954. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique, 49(4), 734–747.

Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., & Geoffroy, B. (1999). Afro-tropical anopheline mosquitoes. III. Description of three new species: Anopheles carnevalei sp. nov., An. hervyi sp. nov., and An. dualaensis sp. nov., and resurrection of An. rageaui Mattingly and Adam. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 15(4), 552–558.

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.

Mattingly, P.F., & Adam, J.P. (1954). A new species of cave-dwelling anopheline from the French Cameroons. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 48(1), 55–57.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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