Identification and characterisation of mosquitoes from different locations in Qatar in 2017–2019

Elmoubasher Abu Baker Abd Farag; Devendra Bansal; Khaled Mardini; Ali A. Sultan; Mohammed Hamad J. Al-Thani; Salih Ali Al-Marri; Mohammed Al-Hajri; Hamad Al-Romaihi; Francis Schaffner

doi:10.1051/parasite/2021079

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Parasite, 28 (2021) 84

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Table 5

Mosquito taxa reported to occur in Qatar in the literature, with date of first report, our findings, and assessed occurrence status. Black dots = confirmed presence.

Taxon	First report	References for Qatar	Session 1 2017–2018	Session 2 2017	Session 3 2019	Occurrence status
Aedes aegypti	1999	[2]				Introduced?
Aedes caspius	2009	[14, 15, 18]	●	●	●	Native
Aedes dorsalis	2015	[15]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Anopheles culicifacies s.l.	1999	[2]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Anopheles multicolor	1992	[11, 15, 18]				Native
Anopheles sergentii	1992	[11]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Anopheles stephensi	1999	[2, 14, 15, 18, 21]	●		●	Native
Culex bitaeniorhynchus	2015	[21]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Culex laticinctus	2015	[14]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Culex mimeticus	2015	[21]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Culex pipiens² complex	1985	[1, 14, 15, 18, 19]				Native; Identity of occurring complex members to be confirmed
Culex perexiguus	2015	[14]			●	Native
Culex pusillus	2009	[14, 18]	●	●	●	Native
Culex quinquefasciatus	1988	[2, 12, 14, 15, 19]	●³		●	Native; Member of pipiens complex
Culex sitiens	2015	[14]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Culex tritaeniorhynchus	2015	[14, 15]	●	●	●	Native
Culex univittatus	2009	[14, 18]				Native; Identity to be confirmed by sequencing
Culex vagans	2015	[21]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Culiseta sp.	1985	[1]				¹ May refer to Cs. longiareolata
Culiseta longiareolata	This study	–	●		●	Native
Coquillettidia sp.	2015	[21]				¹ Presence to be confirmed
Total numbers:	21		6	3	7

¹

Single record;

²

Mentioned as pipiens complex or form molestus;

³

As a group of three possible species, Cx. perexiguus, Cx. pipiens and Cx. quinquefasciatus.

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