Culex (Maillotia) salisburiensis Theobald, 1901a

Dawah, Hassan A., Abdullah, Mohammed A., Ahmad, Syed Kamran, Turner, James & Azari-Hamidian, Shahyad, 2023, An overview of the mosquitoes of Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Culicidae), with updated keys to the adult females, Zootaxa 5394 (1), pp. 1-76 : 46

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Culex (Maillotia) salisburiensis Theobald, 1901a View in CoL ( Fig. 44 View FIGURE 44 )

Type locality. Salisbury , Mashonaland, Zimbabwe.

Distribution. This species is found in the Afrotropical Region ( Wilkerson et al. 2021). In the Middle East, it has been recorded in Saudi Arabia and Yemen ( Knight 1953b; Mattingly & Knight 1956; White 1980; Miller et al. 2002; Tantely et al. 2016; Wilkerson et al. 2021). It was recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia by Miller et al. (2002).

Remarks. Knight (1953b) found many differences between adult specimens of Cx. salisburiensis from Yemen and the description of the species provided by Edwards (1941). However, it was confirmed that there were errors in Edwards’s description ( Harbach & Wilkerson 2023). Mattingly & Knight (1956) noted that the specimens from Yemen correspond to the nominotypical form.

Medical importance. Culex salisburiensis , like other species of the subgenus Maillotia , is of no medical importance to humans ( Tantely et al. 2016; Becker et al. 2020).

References

Becker, N., Petric, D., Zgomba, M., Boase, C., Madon, M., Dahl, C. & Kaiser, A. (2020) Mosquitoes: identification, ecology and control. 3 rd Edition. Springer Verlag, Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, 570 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 11623 - 1

Edwards, F. W. (1941) Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. - Culicine adults and pupae. British Museum (Natural History), London, viii + 499 pp.

Harbach, R. E. & Wilkerson, R. C. (2023) The insupportable validity of mosquito subspecies (Diptera: Culicidae) and their exclusion from culicid classification. Zootaxa, 5303 (1), 1 - 184. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5303.1.1

Knight, K. L. (1953 b) The mosquitoes of the Yemen (Diptera, Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 55 (5), 212 - 234.

Mattingly, P. F. & Knight, K. L. (1956) The mosquitoes of Arabia. I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 4 (3), 91 - 141.

Miller, B. R., Godsey, M. S., Crabtree, M. B. Savage, H. M., Al-Mazrao, Y., Al-Jaffri, M. H. Abdoon, A. - M. M., Al-Seghayer, S. M., Al-Shahrani, A. M. & Ksiazek, T. G. (2002) Isolation and genetic characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 8 (12), 1492 - 1494. https: // doi. org / 10.3201 / eid 0812.020194

Tantely, M. L., Le Goff, G., Boyer, S. & Fontenille, D. (2016) An updated checklist of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) from Madagascar. Parasite, 23, 20. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / parasite / 2016018

Theobald, F. V. (1901 a) A Monograph of the Culicidae or Mosquitoes. Vol. 1. British Museum (Natural History), London, xviii + 424 pp.

White, G. B. (1980) Family Culicidae. In: Crosskey, R. W. (Ed.), Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, pp. 114 - 148.

Wilkerson, R. C., Linton, Y. - M. & Strickman, D. A. (2021) Mosquitoes of the world. Vols 1 and 2. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltomore, Maryland, 1308 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1186 / s 13071 - 021 - 04848 - 6