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We collected mosquitoes across many of southeastern Arizona\u2019s Sky Island mountain ranges. Here, we present new collection records supported by morphological and molecular evidence that indicate the presence of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) amateuri in at least two Sky Islands ranges, the Santa Rita Mountains and the Dragoon Mountains. Aedes amateuri was described in 2019, previously known only from the type locality in Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, Mexico. These records represent the first detection of Ae. amateuri in the USA, and the northernmost collections of this species. The results of DNA barcoding and comparison of Arizona Ae. amateuri cytochrome c oxidase subunit I sequences to those available in publicly accessible databases suggest that Ae. amateuri is present in an additional location in Mexico, south to Honduras. 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