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Anopheles (Anopheles) claviger

  • 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

21. Anopheles (Anopheles) claviger (Meigen, 1804)

(Fig. 4D)

Published sources: Remm (1957: 150, as Anopheles bifurcatus Linnaeus, 1758), Burtin (2014: 35), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: 1♀, Ülenurme (58° 19′ 3″ N, 26° 43′ 23″ E), 14–17.VIII.2020, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210219, GenBank: OK465168; 1♀, Undi (58° 29′ 44″ N, 26° 54′ 00″ E), 15– 16.VIII.2016, L. Tummeleht leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210220, GenBank: OK465169; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 24″ N, 26° 42′ 55″ E), 03.IX.2013, V. Burtin leg., V. Burtin det., sweep net, IZBE0210007.

Comment: 1,038 mosquitoes (4.3% of all specimens collected) were identified as An. claviger. This species is abundant in Estonia, especially during August, but some individuals can be found from May to October. Anopheles claviger was the most common anopheline mosquito in this study.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IZBE , V
Material sample ID
IZBE0210007 , IZBE0210219 , IZBE0210220
Event date
2013-09-03 , 2016-08-15 , 2020-08-14
Verbatim event date
2013-09-03 , 2016-08-15/16 , 2020-08-14/17
Scientific name authorship
Meigen
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Anopheles
Species
claviger
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anopheles (Anopheles) claviger (Meigen, 1804) sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Meigen, J. W. (1804) Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europaischen Zweiflugeligen Insekten. (Diptera Linn.). Erster Band. Ester Abtheilung, mit VIII Kupfertafeln. Karl Reichard, Braunschweig, xxviii + 152 pp., 8 pls. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 12464
  • Remm, H. (1957) On the fauna and ecology of mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) of Estonian SSR [in Russian]. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 36, 148 - 160.
  • Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus 1. Editio Decima. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 559
  • 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