PMID: 8586876Dec 1, 1995Paper

Distribution and ecology of the mosquito fauna in the southwestern Saudi Arabia

Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
M A Abdullah, A I Merdan

Abstract

A mosquito Larval survey was carried out in the Southwestern region of Saudi Arabia for a two subsequent years period. Nine mosquito species were identified; 4 Anopheline species; Anopheles arabiensis, An. sergentii, An. multicolor and An. tenebrosus and 3 Culicine species, Culex pipiens, Cx. quinquefaciatus and Cx. theileri as well as one Aedine species, Aedes caspius and Culiseta subochrea. A map was made showing the distribution of the encountered species and a full description of all breeding places was made also. The association of different species in each breeding site was also recorded.

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