Culex (Culex) mattinglyi Knight, 1953a

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 : 33

Culex (Culex) mattinglyi Knight, 1953a ( Fig. 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).

Figures

FIGURE 31. Culex mattinglyi, female (photo by James Turner, National Museum of Wales).