Anopheles bervoetsi D’Haenans, 1961

AFROTROPICAL REGION

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Etymology: Wilfred Pierre Bervoets

Type locality: Tsakalakuku, Feshi, Leopoldville, Congo [Kinshasa, Republic of the Congo]

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

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 bervoetsi DNA sequences

 

Associated Pathogens

 

DISTRIBUTION NOTES

Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo.

 

IMPORTANT REFERENCES

D’Haenans 1961: 189 (M*, F*, L*)

Wanson & Berteaux 1954: 33 (L*; as mortiauxi)

Gillies & De Meillon 1968: 4,100 (F*, L*; to species)

Brunhes et al. 1998a: 397 (to subspecies)

Antonio-Nkondjio et al. 2008 (from subspecies of moucheti)

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

 

CURRENT SYNONYMS

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CURRENT SUBSPECIES

None

 

CITED REFERENCES

Antonio-Nkondjio, C., Ndo, C., Kengne, P., Mukwaya, L., Awono-Ambene, P., Fontenille, D., & Simard, F. (2008). Population structure of the malaria vector Anopheles moucheti in the equatorial forest region of Africa. Malaria Journal, 7, 120.

Brunhes, J., Le Goff, G., Manga, L., & Geoffroy, B  . (1998a).  Anophèles Afrotropicaux. IV. Mise au point sur le complexe Anopheles moucheti, réhabilitation d’An. multicinctus et d’An. garnhami basilewskyi (Diptera: Culicidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 34(4), 397–405.

D’Haenens, G. (1961). Description d’un anophèle nouveau du Congo (Kwango) A. moucheti brevoetsi n. subsp. Bulletin et annales de la Société Royale d’Entomologie de Belgique, 97(7–8), 188–200.

Gillies, M.T., & De Meillon, B. (1968). The Anophelinae of Africa, south of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1–343.

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.

Wanson, M., & Berteaux, M. (1954). La larve de l’Anopheles mortiauxi Edwards. Revue de zoologie et de botanique Africaines, 49, 33–38.

 

CITE THIS PAGE

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