Aedes (Ochlerotatus) sticticus (Meigen, 1838)

Khalin, A. V. & Aibulatov, S. V., 2021, Northernmost records of mosquito species (Diptera: Culicidae) in northwestern Russia, Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 30 (1), pp. 46-63 : 56

Aedes (Ochlerotatus) sticticus (Meigen, 1838)

Northernmost records ( Fig. 3f ). 61°0 ′ 52.96 ″ N, 33°48 ′ 7.27 ″ E, RK, Olonets Distr., Tashkenitsy , 27.VI.2009 (MAK) ; 64°32 ′ 23.68 ″ N, 40°30 ′ 56.71 ″ E, AP, Arkhangelsk ( Sharkov, 1982) ; 71°30 ′ 38.91 ″ N, 52°18 ′ 3 ″ E, AP, Novaya Zemlya, Belush’ya Bay * ( Sack, 1923) ; 64°16 ′ 1.87 ″ N, 57°37 ′ 6.86 ″ E, Komi, Vuktyl Distr., Ust’-Shchugel ( Panyukova & Ostroushko, 2017) .

Distribution. NWR: AP, Komi, LP, NP,PP, RK, SPb, VP. Adjacent countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania and Belarus. Europe (ranging northward to the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark); the Holarctic.

Note. The northernmost record of Aedes sticticus is 71°30 ′ 38.91 ″ N, 52°18 ′ 3 ″ E, Novaya Zemlya ( Fig. 3f ; Sack, 1923). However, in Fennoscandia the species was recorded only from the southern parts of Sweden, Norway and Finland. The northernmost records of Ae. sticticus from these countries are as follows: Norway: 59°56 ′ 25.58 ″ N, 10°56 ′ 28.91 ″ E, Lerenskog ( Natvig, 1948); 59°46 ′ 59.48 ″ N, 11°11 ′ 40.04 ″ E, Oieren ( Mehl et al., 1983); 61°33 ′ 27.28 ″ N, 9°56 ′ 15.52 ″ E, Ser Fron ( Mehl, 1996); Sweden: 60°38 ′ 46.83 ″ N, 15°51 ′ 24.71 ″ E, Karlsbyn ( Natvig, 1948); 61°3 ′ 40.76 ″ N, 14°12 ′ 53.5 ″ E, Dalarna ( Lundström et al., 2013); Finland: 60°24 ′ N, 19°54 ′ E, Åland ( Culverwell et al., 2021). In the case of partial loss of thoracic and abdominal scales, females of Ae. sticticus cannot be distinguished from some other Aedes species, e.g. Ae. communis .

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Fig. 3. Northernmost records of Aedes spp. Doubtful records are marked with an asterisk (*).