Anopheles crypticus Coetzee, 1995

Coetzee, Maureen, 2022, Literature review of the systematics, biology and role in malaria transmission of species in the Afrotropical Anopheles subgenus Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae), Zootaxa 5133 (2), pp. 182-200 : 186-187

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5133.2.2
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scientific name	Anopheles crypticus Coetzee, 1995
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Anopheles crypticus Coetzee, 1995 View in CoL

1983. Anopheles coustani View in CoL sp. B, Coetzee

TYPE LOCALITY: Johannesburg, South Africa.

Described and named as a new species by comparison with An. coustani based on fixed chromosomal inversion banding patterns and cross-mating characteristics showing male sterility and chromosomal asynapsis ( Coetzee 1983, 1995).

DESCRIPTION:

The adult female is indistinguishable from An. coustani .

LARVAL HABITAT: Unknown.

ADULT BIOLOGY: The holotype specimen was collected resting inside a house. Other specimens were collected biting humans outdoors (unpublished data) .

DISTRIBUTION: Only known from South Africa: Johannesburg and Benoni, Gauteng Province. Also Fish Hoek in Western Cape Province, collected by B. de Meillon in 1934, identified by branching of the pupal setae ( Coetzee 1995) .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Culicidae
Genus	Anopheles