An overview of the mosquitoes of Saudi Arabia (Diptera: Culicidae), with updated keys to the adult females Author Dawah, Hassan A. 0000-0001-5642-7247 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 dawaha@hotmail.co.uk Author Abdullah, Mohammed A. 0000-0002-3323-3623 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 mohd_robiya@hotmail.com Author Ahmad, Syed Kamran 0000-0002-6211-2345 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India entosaif @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6211 - 2345 entosaif@rediffmail.com Author Turner, James 0000-0003-2411-7396 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 urner@museumwales.ac.uk Author Azari-Hamidian, Shahyad 0000-0002-9370-9638 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 azari@gums.ac.ir text Zootaxa 2023 2023-12-28 5394 1 1 76 https://mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5394.1.1/52549 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5394.1.1 1175-5334 10438079 6D86633F-0167-414D-B511-550BCBE578CD Anopheles ( Anopheles ) tenebrosus Döenitz, 1902 ( Fig. 2 ) Type locality. Wadi el Natrun , Egypt . Distribution : This species occurs in the Afrotropical and Palaearctic Regions ( Wilkerson et al. 2021 ). In the Middle East and North Africa, it is found in Egypt , Israel , Jordan , Libya , Oman , Palestine and Saudi Arabia ( Mattingly & Knight 1956 ; Minář 1991 ; White 1980 ; Wills et al. 1985 ; Harbach et al. 1989 ; Ramsdale 1990 ; Glick 1992 ; Morsy et al. 1995 ; Brunhes et al. 2000 ; Al Ahmad et al. 2011; Alahmed 2012 ; Tantely et al. 2016 ; Irish et al. 2020 ; Wilkerson et al. 2021 ). The species was recorded for the first time in Saudi Arabia (as An. coustani var. tenebrosus ) by Mattingly & Knight (1956) . Remarks. Gillies & de Meillon (1968) described a dark-legged form of this species. As Glick (1992) mentioned, the postmedian dark scales on abdominal sternum VII are present in An. coustani and are occasionally absent in some specimens of An. tenebrosus , however the character is not reliable enough to distinguish the two species. Medical importance. This species is involved in the transmission of human malarial parasites in areas of Africa ( Gillies & de Meillon 1968 ; Adugna et al . 1998 ; Tantely et al. 2016 ).