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
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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
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5E46B86A-1E84-4302-A82D-7D9BB94CB758
1.
Aedes
(
Aedes
)
cinereus
Meigen, 1818
(
Fig. 2A
)
Published sources:
Remm (1957: 156)
,
Burtin (2014: 33)
,
Khalin
et al
. (2020: 61)
,
Kirik
et al
. (2021: 11)
.
Voucher material:
1♀
,
Tartu
(
58° 21′ 26″ N
,
26° 42′ 60″ E
),
14.
VI
.2017,
T
.
Kesküla
leg.,
H. Kirik
det.,
sweep net
,
IZBE0210180
;
1♂
,
Tartu
(
58° 21′ 23″ N
,
26° 44′ 31″ E
),
24.IX.2017
,
T
.
Kesküla
leg.,
H. Kirik
det.,
sweep net
,
IZBE0210247
;
1♀
,
Tartu
(
58° 23′ 24″ N
,
26° 42′ 55″ E
),
14.IX.2016
,
H. Kirik
leg.,
H. Kirik
det.,
sweep net
,
IZBE0210181
,
GenBank
:
OK465139
.
Comment:
1,436 mosquitoes (5.9% of all specimens collected) were identified as
Ae.
cinereus
. This species is abundant in
Estonia
and can be found almost everywhere from June to September. Also,
Ae.
cinereus
can be numerous at times, especially towards the end of the summer, based on the data of the present study. It should be noted that adult females are difficult to differentiate from the closely related
Ae.
geminus
based on morphology alone; thus, specimens of
Ae.
geminus
could also be among the specimens of
Ae.
cinereus
collected during the study.