Published February 3, 2022 | Version v1
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Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius

  • 1. 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
  • 2. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Inst of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwaldi 62, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
  • 3. 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

Description

5. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius (Pallas, 1771)

(Fig. 2D)

Published source: Remm (1957: 152).

Voucher material: 1♀, Vanajõe (58° 53′ 16″ N, 22° 26′ 37″ E), 20–21.VIII.2015, L. Tummeleht leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210185, GenBank: OK465142; 1♂, Kerema (58° 53′ 26″ N, 26° 56′ 52″ E), 05–19.VII.2009, R. Miller leg., H. Kirik det., Malaise trap, IZBE0210187; 1♀, Vanajõe (58° 53′ 16″ N, 22° 26′ 37″ E), 21–22.VIII.2015, L. Tummeleht leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210186.

Comment: 206 mosquitoes (0.9% of all specimens collected) were identified as Ae. caspius. Aedes caspius is a halophilic species mainly found in Estonia near the brackish water of the Baltic Sea. These mosquitoes are common and at times numerous near the coastline, but are rarely found further inland. Thus, their relatively low numbers collected in this study is due to collection bias. Aedes caspius appears to be active throughout summer.

Notes

Published as part of Kirik, Heli, Tummeleht, Lea & Kurina, Olavi, 2022, Rediscovering the mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae) of Estonia: an annotated checklist with distribution maps and DNA evidence, pp. 261-287 in Zootaxa 5094 (2) on page 266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5965149

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZBE , R
Material sample ID
IZBE0210185 , IZBE0210186 , IZBE0210187
Event date
2009-07-05 , 2015-08-20 , 2015-08-21
Verbatim event date
2009-07-05/19 , 2015-08-20/21 , 2015-08-21/22
Scientific name authorship
Pallas
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Aedes
Species
caspius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius (Pallas, 1771) sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Pallas, P. S. (1771) Reise durch versehiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Volume 1. Kayserliche Academie der Wissenschaften, St Petersburg, [12] + 504 pp., tabs. I - XI, tabs. A - L.
  • Remm, H. (1957) On the fauna and ecology of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Estonian SSR [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 36, 148 - 160.