Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis ( de Geer, 1776 )

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E46B86A-1E84-4302-A82D-7D9BB94CB758

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301548

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03865764-0D38-CB01-2D93-FEF8FBDBFCFF

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis ( de Geer, 1776 )
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7. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) communis ( de Geer, 1776) View in CoL

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Published sources: Remm (1957: 155), Burtin (2014: 44), Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: 1♀, Tõrve (58° 37′ 40″ N, 26° 23′ 48″ E), 27.VI–01.VII.2018, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., Mosquito Magnet trap, IZBE0210190 View Materials , GenBank: OK465145 View Materials GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Tartu (58° 23′ 40″ N, 26° 44′ 05″ E), 06.VI.2017, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210191 View Materials , GenBank: OK465146 View Materials GoogleMaps ; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 24″ N, 26° 44′ 40″ E), 17.V.2015, O. Kurina leg., O. Kurina det., sweep net, IZBE0210192 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Comment: 7,316 mosquitoes (30.1% of all specimens collected) were identified as Ae. communis , making it the dominant species in Estonia. Aedes communis can be found everywhere in the country. It is especially numerous during May and June, but individuals can be found until October. Importantly, there appears to be two distinct mitochondrial lineages in the area, which can make DNA barcoding difficult, as some COI sequences appear to be very similar to the North American Ae. tahoensis ( Dyar, 1916) ( Kirik et al. 2020).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Aedes

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