Northernmost records of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in northwestern Russia Author Khalin, A. V. Author Aibulatov, S. V. text Zoosystematica Rossica 2021 Zoosyst. Rossica 2021-05-17 30 1 46 63 http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.46 journal article 57369 10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.46 04c3308e-3420-4584-8757-b907652285dd 2410-0226 10124237 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DF5793AA-ECF7-4A91-BCCC-FB0BB577EF16 Anopheles ( Anopheles ) messeae Falleroni, 1926 Northernmost records ( Fig. 2b ). 69°16 ′ 2.06 ″ N , 30°8 ′ 24.28 ″ E , MP , Pechenga Distr. , Shuoniyoki River *, 6.VI.1957 (MOC) ; 64°31 ′ 49.15 ″ N , 34°45 ′ 47.98 ″ E , RK , Belomorsk Distr. , Belomorsk ( Perevozkin et al., 2012 ) ; 64°32 ′ 23.68 ″ N , 40°30 ′ 56.71 ″ E , AP , Arkhangelsk ( Sharkov, 1982 ) ; 63°33 ′ 45.45 ″ N , 53°41 ′ 2.48 ″ E , Komi , Ukhta Distr. , Ukhta ( Panyukova & Ostroushko, 2017 ) . Distribution . NWR: AP, Komi, KP, LP, MP*, NP, PP, RK, VP. Adjacent countries: Norway , Sweden , Finland , Latvia , Lithuania and Belarus . Europe (ranging northward to the UK , Belgium and Denmark ), European Russia , Siberia, Central Asia, northeastern China . Note . The only available specimen from NWR is a head of a female from Shuoniyoki River ( Murmansk Province ), mounted on a slide and identified by A.V. Gutsevich as Anopheles messeae . We cannot confirm this identification. A reliable identification of An. messeae based on morphology is impossible at the adult and larval stages but it is possible at the egg stage. Possibly the female was reared from an egg identified as An . messeae . Three other localities mentioned above are situated not as far north as Shuoniyoki, at latitudes similar with An. maculipennis and An. beklemishevi . We have no arguments to consider these records as doubtful.