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Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) richiardii Pakalniskis et al. 2000

  • 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

25. Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889)

(Fig. 4G)

Published sources: Remm (1957: 152, as Mansonia richiardii), Burtin (2014: 38), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: 1♀, Undi (58° 29′ 44″ N, 26° 54′ 00″ E), 16–17.VIII.2015, L. Tummeleht leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210224, GenBank: OK465174; 1♀, Undi (58° 29′ 44″ N, 26° 54′ 00″ E), 16– 17.VIII.2015, L. Tummeleht leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210225, GenBank: OK465175; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 20″ N, 26° 42′ 52″ E), 31.VII.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210251.

Comment: 787 mosquitoes (3.2% of all specimens collected) were identified as Cq. richiardii. This species is common in the country and specimens have been found from June to October, with a peak of activity in July.

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 pages 271-272, 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
IZBE0210224 , IZBE0210225 , IZBE0210251
Event date
2015-08-16 , 2017-07-31
Verbatim event date
2015-08-16/17 , 2017-07-31
Scientific name authorship
Pakalniskis et al.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Coquillettidia
Species
richiardii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia) richiardii et, 2000 sec. Kirik, Tummeleht & Kurina, 2022

References

  • Ficalbi, E. (1889) Notizie preventive sulle zanzare italiane. IIa Nota preventiva (1). Descrizione di una specie nuova. Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 21, 50 - 53.
  • 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