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Anopheles (Anopheles) tenebrosus Doenitz 1902
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- 1. Centre for Environmental Research and Studies, Jazan University, P. O. Box 2095, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia dawaha @ hotmail. co. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5642 - 7247
- 2. Department of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, PO Box 9004, Abha- 61413, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia mohd _ robiya @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3323 - 3623
- 3. Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India entosaif @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6211 - 2345
- 4. National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences, Entomology Section, Cardiff, CF 10 3 NP, UK James. Turner @ museumwales. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2411 - 7396
- 5. Research Center of Health and Environment, School of Health, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran; Department of Medical Parasitology, Mycology and Entomology, School of Medicine, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran azari @ gums. ac. ir; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9370 - 9638 * Corresponding author: azari @ gums. ac. ir
Description
Anopheles (Anopheles) tenebrosus Döenitz, 1902 (Fig. 2)
Type locality. Wadi el Natrun, Egypt.
Distribution: This species occurs in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic Regions (Wilkerson et al. 2021). In the Middle East and North Africa, it is found in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Palestine and Saudi Arabia (Mattingly & Knight 1956; Minář 1991; White 1980; Wills et al. 1985; Harbach et al. 1989; Ramsdale 1990; Glick 1992; Morsy et al. 1995; Brunhes et al. 2000; Al Ahmad et al. 2011; Alahmed 2012; Tantely et al. 2016; Irish et al. 2020; Wilkerson et al. 2021). The species was recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia (as An. coustani var. tenebrosus) by Mattingly & Knight (1956).
Remarks. Gillies & de Meillon (1968) described a dark-legged form of this species. As Glick (1992) mentioned, the postmedian dark scales on abdominal sternum VII are present in An. coustani and are occasionally absent in some specimens of An. tenebrosus, however the character is not reliable enough to distinguish the two species.
Medical importance. This species is involved in the transmission of human malarial parasites in areas of Africa (Gillies & de Meillon 1968; Adugna et al. 1998; Tantely et al. 2016).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 5394 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5394.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10438079
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Doenitz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Culicidae
- Genus
- Anopheles
- Species
- tenebrosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anopheles (Anopheles) tenebrosus Doenitz, 1902 sec. Dawah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Turner & Azari-Hamidian, 2023
References
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Wills, W. M., Jakob, W. L., Francy, D. B., Oertley, R. E., Anani, E., Calisher, C. H. & Monath, T. P. (1985) Sindbis virus isolations from Saudi Arabian mosquitoes. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 79 (1), 63 - 66. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0035 - 9203 (85) 90238 - X
- Harbach, R. E., Harrison, B. A., Gad, A. M., Kenawy, M. A. & El-Said, S. (1989) Records and notes on mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) collected in Egypt. Mosquito Systematics, 20 (3), 317 - 342. [for 1988]
- Ramsdale, C. D. (1990) Anopheles mosquitoes and imported malaria in Libya. Mosquito Systematics, 22 (1), 34 - 40.
- Glick, J. I. (1992) IIustrated key to the female Anopheles of southwestern Asia and Egypt. Mosquito Systematics, 24 (2), 125 - 153. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 08989629208573811
- Morsy, T. A., el Kadry A. A., Salama, M. M., Sabry, A. H. & el Sharkawy, I. M. (1995) Studies on the bionomics and vector competence of adult anopheline mosquitoes in El Faiyum Governorate, Egypt. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 25 (1), 213 - 244.
- Brunhes, J., Hassaine, K., Rhaim, A. & Hervy, J. - P. (2000) Les Culicides de l'Afrique mediterraneenne: especes presentes et repartition (Diptera, Nematocera). Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 105 (2), 195 - 204. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / bsef. 2000.16659
- Alahmed, M. A. (2012) Mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae) of the Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia and their seasonal abundance. Journal King Saud University for Science, 24 (1), 55 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. jksus. 2010.12.001
- 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
- Irish, S. R., Kyalo, D., Snow, R. W. & Coetzee, M. (2020) Updated list of Anopheles species (Diptera: Culicidae) by country in the Afrotropical Region and associated islands. Zootaxa, 4747 (3), 401 - 449. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4747.3.1
- Gillies, M. T. & de Meillon, B. (1968) The Anophelinae of Africa South of the Sahara (Ethiopian Zoogeographical Region). Publications of the South African Institute for Medical Research, 54, 1 - 343.
- Adugna, N., Petros, B., Woldegiorgis, M., Tilahun, D. & Lulu, M. (1998) A study of the status of A. tenebrosus (Donitz, 1902) in the transmission of malaria in Sille, Southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development, 12, 75 - 80.