Aedes (Ochlerotatus) dorsalis ( Meigen, 1830 )

Kirik, Heli, Tummeleht, Lea & Kurina, Olavi, 2022, Rediscovering the mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae) of Estonia: an annotated checklist with distribution maps and DNA evidence, Zootaxa 5094 (2), pp. 261-287 : 267

10. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) dorsalis ( Meigen, 1830)

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Published source: Remm (1957: 152).

Voucher material: None.

Comment: One male and four females of Ae. dorsalis have been reported from Estonia ( Remm 1957). However, the specimens have not been preserved and cannot be verified. No specimens were found during the present study. Aedes dorsalis has been reported from Lithuania ( Pakalniškis et al. 2000), Latvia ( Spungis 2000), provinces adjacent to Estonia in northwestern Russia ( Khalin & Aibulatov 2020), Finland ( Culverwell 2018; Culverwell et al. 2021) and Sweden ( Lundström et al. 2013). Therefore, this species is likely to be present in Estonia as well. The absence of specimens in collections made during this study could be due to insufficient trapping, as well as collection bias, as Ae. dorsalis is halophilic and has been known to be associated with floods ( Becker et al. 2020).

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FIGURE 3. Maps showing the historic and current collection points of individual mosquito species in Estonia. A, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) dorsalis; B, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) excrucians; C, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) flavescens; D, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) hexodontus; E, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) intrudens; F, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) leucomelas; G, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus; H, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) punctor. For details, see Fig. 2.