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Anopheles (Cellia) pulcherrimus Theobald 1902
Authors/Creators
- 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 (Cellia) pulcherrimus Theobald, 1902 (Fig. 12)
Type locality. Lahore, Pakistan.
Distribution. This species is found in the Oriental and Palaearctic Regions (Azari-Hamidian et al. 2019). In the Middle East, it has been recorded in Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and United Arab Emirates (Mattingly & Knight 1956; Service 1986; Minář 1991; Glick 1992; Salit et al. 1994; Al-Houty 1997; Alten et al. 2000; Ramsdale et al. 2001; Rueda et al. 2008; Azari-Hamidian et al. 2019; Wilkerson et al. 2021). It was first recorded in Saudi Arabia by Mattingly & Knight (1956).
Remarks. Kirti & Kaur (2004) reported that there are variations in the ornatmentation of the maxillary palpi and wings in natural populations of this species collected in northwestern India. Therefore, taxonomists should be aware of this as it may lead to misidentification.
Medical importance. Anopheles pulcherrimus is confirmed as a vector of malaria in parts of the former USSR and Afghanistan (Onori et al. 1975; Sergiev et al. 1993). It was identified as a potential vector in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in southeastern Iran based on immunoradiometric assay detection of Plasmodium vivax (Zaim et al. 1993). Also, Tyagin and Rift Valley fever viruses have been found in this species (Wilkerson et al. 2021).
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 17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5394.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10438079
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Theobald
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Diptera
- Family
- Culicidae
- Genus
- Anopheles
- Species
- pulcherrimus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anopheles (Cellia) pulcherrimus Theobald, 1902 sec. Dawah, Abdullah, Ahmad, Turner & Azari-Hamidian, 2023
References
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- Azari-Hamidian, S., Norouzi, B. & Harbach, R. E. (2019) A detailed review of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Iran and their medical and veterinary importance. Acta Tropica, 194, 106 - 122. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. actatropica. 2019.03.019
- Mattingly, P. F. & Knight, K. L. (1956) The mosquitoes of Arabia. I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 4 (3), 91 - 141.
- Service, M. W. (1986) The biologies of Aedes caspius (Pallas) and Culex quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) in Dubai. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 7, 11 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / S 1742758400003039
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- 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
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- Kirti, J. S. & Kaur, J. (2004) Morphological variations in natural populations of Anopheles (Cellia) pulcherrimus Theobald collected from North-West India. Entomon, 29 (2), 197 - 201.
- Onori, E., Nushin, M. K., Cullen, J. R., Yakubi, G. H., Mohamed, K. & Cristal, F. A. (1975) An epidemiological assessment of the residual effect of DDT on Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas) and An. pulcherrimus Theobald. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 69, 236 - 242. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / 0035 - 9203 (75) 90161 - 3
- Sergiev, V. P., Baranova, A. M., Orlov, V. S., Mihajlov, L. G., Kouznetsov, R. L., Neujmin, N. I., Arsenieva, L. P., Shahova, M. A., Glagolova, L. A. & Osipova, M. M. (1993) Importation of malaria into the USSR from Afghanistan, 1981 - 89. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 71 (3 / 4), 385 - 388.
- Zaim, M., Subbarao, S. K., Manouchehri, A. V. & Cochrane, A. H. (1993) Role of Anopheles culicifacies s. l. and An. pulcherrimus in malaria transmission in Ghassreghand (Baluchistan), Iran. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 9 (1), 23 - 26.