Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis
Creators
- 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
7. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis (de Geer, 1776)
(Fig. 2F)
Published sources: Remm (1957: 155), Burtin (2014: 44), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).
Voucher material: 1♀, Tõrve (58° 37′ 40″ N, 26° 23′ 48″ E), 27.VI–01.VII.2018, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210190, GenBank: OK465145; 1♀, Tartu (58° 23′ 40″ N, 26° 44′ 05″ E), 06.VI.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210191, GenBank: OK465146; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 24″ N, 26° 44′ 40″ E), 17.V.2015, O. Kurina leg., O. Kurina det., sweep net, IZBE0210192.
Comment: 7,316 mosquitoes (30.1% of all specimens collected) were identified as Ae. communis, making it the dominant species in Estonia. Aedes communis can be found everywhere in the country. It is especially numerous during May and June, but individuals can be found until October. Importantly, there appears to be two distinct mitochondrial lineages in the area, which can make DNA barcoding difficult, as some COI sequences appear to be very similar to the North American Ae. tahoensis (Dyar, 1916) (Kirik et al. 2020).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- IZBE
- Event date
- 2015-05-17 , 2017-06-06 , 2018-06-27
- Family
- Culicidae
- Genus
- Aedes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- IZBE0210190 , IZBE0210191 , IZBE0210192
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- de Geer
- Species
- communis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-05-17 , 2017-06-06 , 2018-06-27/07-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis (Geer, 1776) sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022
References
- de Geer, C. (1776) Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes. Tome sixieme. De l'imprimerie de Pierre Hesselberg, Stockholm, viii + 522 pp., 30 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 14146
- Remm, H. (1957) On the fauna and ecology of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Estonian SSR [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 36, 148 - 160.
- Burtin, V. (2014) Pistesaasklaste (Diptera: Culicidae) liigiline koosseis ja elupaigaeelistused Tartu linnas [Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) species richness and habitat preference in the town of Tartu]. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, 64 pp.
- 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
- Dyar, H. G. (1916) New Aedes from the mountains of California (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 4 (7 - 9), 80 - 90.
- Kirik, H., Tummeleht, L., Lilja, T. & Kurina, O. (2020) Novel mitochondrial DNA lineage found among Ochlerotatus communis (De Geer, 1776) of the Nordic-Baltic Region. Insects, 11 (6), 397. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / insects 11060397