Sedaghat and Harbach reported 25 species of the Anopheles fauna in Iran ; but in the checklist of Iranian mosquitoes,
Azari-Hamidian has pointed to 64 species and 3 subspecies in the Culicidae family; and in the meantime, he introduced
two subgenera (Anopheles and Celia) and 28 species in the genus Anopheles