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).

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 33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5394.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10438079