culiseta annulata: a new mosquito for kuwait. | we report new records for culiseta annulata from kuwait. prior to our records, culiseta longiareolata was the only culiseta sp. known from kuwait. culiseta annulata is a vector of tahyna virus (bunyaviridae) to humans throughout asia. we tested a limited number of mosquitoes for tahyna virus and other viruses. tahyna virus was not detected, but we did discover a mosquito densovirus in a pool of cs. annulata using next generation sequencing. | 2016 | 28206870 |