Author
Giles
- 1900b:50 (M, F*).
- Freetown, [Sierra Leone] (BM).
Distribution
- Angola, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central
African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ethiopia,
Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar,
Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra
Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo,
Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zaire
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Synonyms
Bionomics
- In most parts of its range, funestus breeds characteristically
in bodies of clear water that are either large and more or less
permanent, e.g. swamps (near edges if deep), weedy sides of streams,
rivers, furrows or ditches, protected portions of lake shore,
ponds, etc., especially when weedy, or water such as seepages,
which are fed from underground permanent sources (Evans 1938).
A. funestus is one of the most anthropophilic mosquitoes
known….The great bulk of feeding takes place inside houses
after 2200 up to dawn (Gillies and deMeillon 1968).
Medical Importance
- A. funestus is a vector of malaria and bancroftian
filariasis (Gillies and deMeillon 1968).
Additional References
- deMeillon
1947b:114 (M*, F*, P*, L*, E*).
- Service
1960a:77 (M*, F*, E*; tax.).
- Gillies
and deMeillon 1968:131 (distr.).
- deMeillon,
Van Eeden, Coetzee, Coetzee, Meiswinkel, Du Toit and Hansford
1977:657 (tax.).
