Rediscovering the mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae) of Estonia: an annotated checklist with distribution maps and DNA evidence Author Kirik, Heli 0000-0002-5654-4045 Estonian University of Life Sciences, Inst of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 5 D, 51006 Tartu, Estonia & hekirik @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5654 - 4045 hekirik@gmail.com Author Tummeleht, Lea Estonian University of Life Sciences, Inst of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 62, 51006 Tartu, Estonia Author Kurina, Olavi 0000-0002-4858-4629 Estonian University of Life Sciences, Inst of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 5 D, 51006 Tartu, Estonia & olavi. kurina @ emu. ee; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4858 - 4629 olavi.kurina@emu.ee text Zootaxa 2022 2022-02-03 5094 2 261 287 journal article 20788 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.3 9f61afca-6905-40a6-9dfd-d0d05e940641 1175-5326 5965149 5E46B86A-1E84-4302-A82D-7D9BB94CB758 2. Aedes ( Aedimorphus ) vexans ( Meigen, 1830 ) ( Fig. 2B ) Published sources: Remm (1957: 156) , Burtin (2014: 34) , Lilja et al . (2018: 283) , Kirik et al . (2021: 11) . Voucher material: 1♀ , Tartu ( 58° 21′ 23″ N , 26° 44′ 31″ E ), 13.VIII.2017 , T . Kesküla leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net , IZBE0210182 , GenBank : OK465140 ; 1♀ , Tartu ( 58° 22′ 17″ N , 26° 41′ 58″ E ), 21.VIII.2017 , H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net , IZBE0210183 , GenBank : OK465141 ; 1♂ , Tartu ( 58° 21′ 16″ N , 26° 40′ 53″ E ), 06.VI.2015 , T . Kesküla leg., O. Kurina det., sweep net , IZBE0210184 . Comment: 366 mosquitoes (1.5% of all specimens collected) were identified as Ae. vexans . This species was infrequently collected, but specimens could be found throughout the warm season, with a peak of activity in August. However, Ae. vexans has been found to emerge in large numbers after floods ( Schäfer & Lundström 2009 ), so their low numbers in this study could be due to sampling bias.