Published February 3, 2022 | Version v1
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Aedes (Ochlerotatus) cataphylla Dyar 1916

  • 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

6. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) cataphylla Dyar, 1916

(Fig. 2E)

Published sources: Remm (1957: 154), Khalin et al. (2020: 66), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: 1♀, Tartu (58° 23′ 44″ N, 26° 43′ 44″ E), 06.VI.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210188, GenBank: OK465143; 1♀, Tartu (58° 20′ 52″ N, 26° 41′ 37″ E), 14.VI.2017, T. Kesküla leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210189, GenBank: OK465144; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 40″ N, 26° 44′ 05″ E), 14.VI.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210244.

Comment: 3,951 mosquitoes (16.2% of all specimens collected) were identified as Ae. cataphylla, making it the third most common mosquito species in Estonia. This species is abundant almost everywhere in the country and can be numerous at times. As is typical for a spring-time species, Ae. cataphylla are most active in May, but some specimens can be found until September.

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 , T
Material sample ID
IZBE0210188 , IZBE0210189 , IZBE0210244
Event date
2017-06-06 , 2017-06-14
Verbatim event date
2017-06-06 , 2017-06-14
Scientific name authorship
Dyar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Aedes
Species
cataphylla
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aedes (Ochlerotatus) cataphylla Dyar, 1916 sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Dyar, H. G. (1916) New Aedes from the mountains of California (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 4 (7 - 9), 80 - 90.
  • Remm, H. (1957) On the fauna and ecology of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Estonian SSR [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 36, 148 - 160.
  • Khalin, A. V. & Aibulatov, S. V. (2020) Fauna of blood-sucking insects of the gnus complex in the Northwestern Region of Russia. III. Mosquitoes (Culicidae). Entomological Review, 100 (1), 58 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0013873820010066
  • Kirik, H., Burtin, V., Tummeleht, L. & Kurina, O. (2021) Friends in all the green spaces: weather dependent changes in urban mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) abundance and diversity. Insects, 12 (4), 352. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / insects 12040352