Anopheles (Cellia) turkhudi Liston, 1901

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 : 22

Anopheles (Cellia) turkhudi Liston, 1901 ( Fig. 18 )

Type locality. Ellichpur, India .

Distribution. This species is found in the Afrotropical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions ( Azari-Hamidian et al. 2019). In the Middle East and North Africa, it has been recorded in Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen ( Knight 1953b; Mattingly & Knight 1956; Kouznetsov 1976; White 1980; Service 1986; Harbach et al. 1989; Minář 1991; Glick 1992; van Harten & Wagener 1994; Brunhes et al. 2000; Abdoon & Alshahrani 2003; Rueda et al. 2008; Alahmed et al. 2009; Kheir et al. 2010; Al Ahmad et al. 2011; Irish et al. 2016, 2020; Azari-Hamidian et al. 2019; Robert et al. 2019; Merdić et al. 2020; Wilkerson et al. 2021). It was recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia by Mattingly & Knight (1956).

Remarks: Anopheles turkhudi is a variable species. Gillies & de Meillon (1968) noted some variation in the palpal bands and wing ornamentation.

Medical importance. Anopheles turkhudi is a vector of malarial Plasmodium in India ( Horsfall 1972) .

Figures

FIGURE 18. Anopheles turkhudi, male (Natural History Museum, London, photo by James Turner, National Museum of Wales).