Table 1.

Dengue Vectors (mosquitoes) and their introduction to Pakistan

First Author	Year	Finding	Areas	Found in	Ref
Barraud	1934	Culicine fauna of British India was published	Peshawar, Dera Ismail Khan, Lahore, Larkana and Karachi in west Pakistan	1927–32	21
Qutubuddin	1960	First detection of Ae. aegypti	Kohat-Hangu valley	1949	23
Khan	1969, 1971	A check list on the names and taxonomic position of Culicidae in Pakistan was produced	West Pakistan	1960	22
Suleman	1996	Suppression of Malaria and Ae. aegypti	All cities that encountered with Malaria and Dengue in the past	After 1950’s	24
Kamimura	1986	Re-emergence of Malaria and Dengue	All cities that encountered with Malaria and Dengue previously	From 1980’s	25
Suleman Paul Tariq Tariq	1996 1998 2000 2010	Ae. aegypti	Landi Kotal, Karachi	1996–1997	24 26 27 32
Mukhtar	2011	Dominance of Ae. albopictus over Ae. aegypti	Northern/ sub mountainous areas (500–600 m above sea level)	2006–2010	19
Mukhtar	2011	Dominance of Ae. aegypti over Ae. albopictus	Central Pakistan region	2006–2010	19
Mukhtar Qasam Khan	2012 2014 2015	Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus	Muree hills, Charsadda, Nowshera, Peshawar, Mardan and Buner districts	2012, 2012–13,2014	18 28 29
Khan Khan Rasheed	2016 2017 2013	Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus	Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Attock, Haripur, Hasanabdal, Taxilla, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Swat, Buner, Sheikhupura, Faisalabad, Multan and Hyderabad	2013, 2014–15	5 31 13