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

  • 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

17. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) punctor (Kirby, 1837)

(Fig. 3H)

Published sources: Remm (1597: 155), Burtin (2014: 48), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: 1♀, Tartu (58° 22′ 52″ N, 26° 42′ 49″ E), 06.VI.2017. H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210210, GenBank: OK465161; 1♀, Tartu (58° 22′ 52″ N, 26° 42′ 49″ E), 19.VI.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210211, GenBank: OK465162; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 54″ N, 26° 44″ 40’’ E), 17.V.2015, O. Kurina leg., O. Kurina det., sweep net, IZBE0210212.

Comment: 4,594 mosquitoes (18.9% of all specimens collected) were grouped as Ae. punctor / punctodes Dyar, 1922, although males were identified as Ae. punctor. Aedes punctor is known to be more common than Ae. punctodes (Culverwell et al., 2021), but further DNA analysis or larval collections are required to make definitive conclusions about the presence of Ae. punctodes in Estonia. The two females of Ae. punctor / punctodes chosen as voucher specimens were identified as Ae. punctor by DNA barcoding. These mosquitoes were especially numerous in May during this study, but some individuals were found until October.

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 269, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5965149

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZBE
Material sample ID
IZBE0210210 , IZBE0210211 , IZBE0210212
Event date
2015-05-17 , 2017-06-06 , 2017-06-19
Verbatim event date
2015-05-17 , 2017-06-06 , 2017-06-19
Scientific name authorship
Kirby
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Aedes
Species
punctor
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aedes (Ochlerotatus) punctor (Kirby, 1837) sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Kirby, W. (1837) Fauna Boreali-Americana. Part IV. The Insects. In: Richardson, J. (ed.), Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the Zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late Northern Land Expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R. N. Josiah Fletcher, Norwich, xxxix + 325 pp., 13 pls, errata.
  • 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. (1922) New mosquitoes from Alaska (Diptera, Culicidae). Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, 10 (1 - 3), 1 - 3.
  • Culverwell, C. L., Uusitalo, R. J., Korhonen, E. M., Vapalahti, O. P., Huhtamo, E. & Harbach, R. E. (2021). The mosquitoes of Finland: updated distributions and bionomics. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 35 (1), 1 - 29. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / mve. 12475