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Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans

Description

Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans (Meigen, 1830)

Northernmost records (Fig. 2c). 62°3 30.4 N, 36°39 18.26 E, RK, Pudozh Distr. (Lobkova, 1964); 67°29 16.02 N, 51°52 52.23 E, NAR, Zapolyarnyy Distr., Kamenka (Monchadsky, 1950); 62°16 32.8 N, 50°40 3.54 E, Komi, Knyazhpogostskiy Distr., Lyali (Panyukova & Ostroushko, 2017).

Distribution. NWR: AP, Komi, KP, LP, NAR, NP, PP, RK, SPb, VP. Adjacent countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. Europe (ranging northward to the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark), Cosmopolitan, except for Polar regions, Australia, and South America.

Note. The record from Kamenka, Nenets Autonomous Region (Monchadsky, 1950), is located significantly farther north than the main part of the range. However, there is a record in Sweden located near the Arctic Circle: Övertorneå, 66°23 N, 23°40 E (Blomgren et al., 2018).

Notes

Published as part of Khalin, A. V. & Aibulatov, S. V., 2021, Northernmost records of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in northwestern Russia, pp. 46-63 in Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) (Zoosyst. Rossica) 30 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.31610/zsr/2021.30.1.46, http://zenodo.org/record/10124237

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NAR , RK
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Aedes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Species
vexans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans (Meigen, 1830) sec. Khalin & Aibulatov, 2021

References

  • Lobkova M. P. 1964. Some data on the distribution of mosquitoes (subfamily Culicinae) in Karelia. In: Lutta A. S. (Ed.). K prirodnoy ochagovosti parazitarnykh i transmissivnykh zabolevaniy v Karelii [Natural focality of parasitic and transmissible diseases in Karelia]: 100 - 108. Moscow, Leningrad: Nauka. (In Russian).
  • Monchadsky A. S. 1950. Attacking by mosquitoes on humans under natural conditions of the Subarctic and its regulating factors. Parazitologicheskiy Sbornik ZIN AN SSSR, 12: 125 - 166. (In Russian).
  • Panyukova E. V. & Ostroushko T. S. 2017. Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Fauna Evropeyskogo Severo-Vostoka Rossii [Fauna of the Northeast of European Russia], 11 (2). Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 209 p. (In Russian).
  • Blomgren E., Hesson J. C., Schafer M. L. & Lundstrom J. O. 2018. Pest occurrence of Aedes rossicus close to the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden. Journal of Vector Ecology, 43 (1): 36 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jvec. 12280