AFROTROPICAL REGION
Etymology: Sinai Peninsula
Type locality: Several localities in Sinai, Egypt
Type depository: Department of Agriculture, Cairo, Egypt; Natural History Museum, London, England, United Kingdom (DAC, NHMUK)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
Harbach 1988: 78
WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Israel (and Gaza Strip and West Bank), Jordan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, Yemen.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Kirkpatrick 1925a: 383 (M*, F, L*)
Kirkpatrick 1925b: 122 (M*, F, P*, L*)
Edwards 1941: 311 (M*, F), 420 (P)
Lewis 1949: 63 (L*)
Hopkins 1952: 295 (L)
Mattingly & Knight 1956: 103 (L; taxonomy)
Lotfi 1973: 206 (distribution)
Harbach 1988: 78 (M*, F, P*, L*; taxonomy, keys, bionomics, distribution)
Townsend 1990: 135 (type information)
Robert et al. 2019 (distribution; Western Palearctic)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Edwards, F.W. (1941). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian Region. III. Culicine adults and pupae. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology.
Harbach, R.E. (1988). Mosquitoes of the subgenus Culex in southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute, 24(1), 1–240.
Hopkins, G.H.E. (1952). Mosquitoes of the Ethiopian region: Larval bionomics of mosquitoes and taxonomy of culicine larvae (2nd ed., Vol. 1). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
Kirkpatrick, T.W. (1925a). Preliminary notes on the determination of Egyptian mosquitos, with descriptions of three species new to science. Bulletin of the Egyptian Entomological Society, 8(for 1924), 362–391.
Kirkpatrick, T.W. (1925b). The mosquitoes of Egypt. Egyptian Government Anti-Malaria Commission.
Lewis, D.J. (1949). Tracheal gills in some African culicine mosquito larvae. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London A: General Entomology, 24(4–6), 60–66.
Lotfi, M.D. (1973). Iranian species of genus Culex (Culicinae: Diptera). II. Report of four species of larvae (including three new records) and 14 adult species. Bulletin de la Société de Pathologie Exotique et de ses filiales, 66(1), 204–207.
Mattingly, P.F., & Knight, K.L. (1956). The mosquitoes of Arabia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History, 43(3), 91–141.
Robert, V., Günay, F., Le Goff, G., Boussès, P., Sulesco, T., Khalin, A., Medlock, J.M., Kampen, H., Petrić, D., & Schaffner, F. (2019). Distribution chart for Euro-Mediterranean mosquitoes (western Palaearctic region). Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association, 37, 1–28.
Townsend, B.C. (1990). Culicidae. In B.C. Townsend, J. E. Chainey, R.W. Crosskey, A.C. Pont, R.P. Lane, J.P.T. Boorman, & C.A. Crouch (Eds.), A catalogue of the types of bloodsucking flies in the British Museum (Natural History) (pp. 35–152). London, England: British Museum (Natural History).
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex sinaiticus species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_sinaiticus, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
