Culex (Culex) mattinglyi Knight, 1953a

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Culex (Culex) mattinglyi Knight, 1953a View in CoL ( Fig. 31 View FIGURE 31 )

Type locality. Birket Shiekh Kunnaf , San’a, Yemen.

Distribution. This species is recorded from the Afrotropical part of the Arabian Peninsula, where it is known only from the highlands of Yemen and a single locality near its northern border in Saudi Arabia ( Knight 1953a, b; Mattingly & Knight 1956; White 1980; Harbach 1985, 1988; van Harten & Wagener, 1994; Al Ahmad et al. 2011; Al Ashry et al. 2014; Wilkerson et al. 2021). The records of this species in Qatar ( Alkhayat et al. 2020), Syria ( Abdel-Malek 1960) and Turkey ( Minář 1991) are doubtful, probably based on misidentified specimens of Cx. laticinctus . Culex mattinglyi was recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia by Mattingly & Knight (1956).

Remarks. Culex mattinglyi is very similar to Cx. laticinctus , and the author of the species did not distinguish it from Cx. laticintus until he examined the male genitalia ( Harbach 1988).

Medical importance. Nothing is known about the disease relations of this species ( Harbach 1988).

References

Abdel-Malek, A. (1960) The culicine mosquitoes of the northern region of the United Arab Republic. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique d'Egypte, 44, 111 - 128.

Al Ashry, H. A., Kenawy, M. A. & Shobrak, M. (2014) Fauna of mosquito larvae (Diptera: Culicida [sic]) in Asir Provence [sic], Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 44 (1), 173 - 186. https: // doi. org / 10.12816 / 0006457

Alkhayat, F. A., Ahmad, H. A., Rahim, J., Dieng, H., Ismail, B. A., Imran, M., Sheikh, U. A. A., Shahzad, M. S. Abid, A. D. & Munawar, K. (2020) Characterization of mosquito larval habitats in Qatar. Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 27 (9), 2358 - 2365. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. sjbs. 2020.07.006

Harbach, R. E. (1985) Pictorial keys to the genera of mosquitoes, subgenera of Culex and the species of Culex (Culex) occurring in southwestern Asia and Egypt, with note on the subgeneric placement of Culex deserticola (Diptera: Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 17 (2), 83 - 107.

Harbach, R. E. (1988) The mosquitoes of the subgenus Culex in southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 24 (1), vi + 1 - 236.

Knight, K. L. (1953 a) Two new species of mosquitoes from the Yemen (Diptera: Culicidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Science, 43 (10), 320 - 325.

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

Minar, J. (1991) Family Culicidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera. Vol. 2. Psychodidae- Chironomidae. Akademiai Kiado, Budapest and Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, pp. 74 - 113. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 19910380404

van Harten, A. & Wagener, B. (1994) Terrestrial arthropods of the Republic of Yemen. A checklist. Sana'a Yemen, Yemeni- German plant Protection Project. ii + 147 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