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Anopheles (Anopheles) messeae Falleroni 1926

  • 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

23. Anopheles (Anopheles) messeae Falleroni, 1926

(Fig. 4E)

Published source: Kirik et al. (2020: 5).

Voucher material: 1♀, Punaküla (58° 20′ 9″ N, 25° 20′ 4″ E), 31.V.–03.VI.2018, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210221, GenBank: OK465170; 1♀, Tartu (58° 21′ 26″ N, 26° 42′ 60″ E), 04.IX.2017, T. Kesküla leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210222, GenBank: OK465171; 1♀, Tartu (58° 21′ 13″ N, 26° 40′ 45” E), 17.IX.2017, T. Kesküla leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210223, GenBank: OK465172.

Comment: Anopheles messeae belongs to the An. maculipennis complex. Based on COI sequences, 17 mosquitoes among 20 specimens of the complex subjected to genetic analyses were identified as An. messeae or An. daciae Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach, 2004 (in Nicolescu et al. 2004). This indicates that An. messeae / daciae most likely make up the majority of the 215 (0.9% of all specimens collected) specimens of the complex collected in this study. Anopheles messeae and An. daciae are difficult to distinguish based on COI sequences at this time, but the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region of one Estonian An. messeae specimen was sequenced in a previous study (Kirik et al. 2020). All in all, individuals belonging to the An. maculipennis complex could be found from May to October, but were more numerous in August. The abundance of mosquitoes of the complex may be underestimated in this study due to collection bias.

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 271, 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
IZBE0210221 , IZBE0210222 , IZBE0210223
Event date
2017-09-04 , 2017-09-17 , 2018-05-31
Verbatim event date
2017-09-04 , 2017-09-17 , 2018-05-31/06-03
Scientific name authorship
Falleroni
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Anopheles
Species
messeae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anopheles (Anopheles) messeae Falleroni, 1926 sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Falleroni, D. (1926) Fauna anofelica italiana e suo " habitat " (paludi, risaie, canali). Metodi di lotta contro la malaria. Rivista di Malariologia, 5 (5 - 6), 553 - 593.
  • 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
  • Nicolescu, G., Linton, Y. - M., Vladimirescu, A., Howard, T. M. & Harbach, R. E. (2004) Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 95 (6), 525 - 535. https: // doi. org / 10.1079 / BER 2004330