Aedes (Rusticoidus) rusticus (Rossi, 1790)

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 : 57

Aedes (Rusticoidus) rusticus (Rossi, 1790)

Northernmost records ( Fig. 3f ). 59°56 ′ 20.74 ″ N, 30°18 ′ 57.12 ″ E, SPb * ( Fedorov, 1969) ; 59°0 ′ 23.35 ″ N, 37°57 ′ 37.11 ″ E, VP, Cherepovets Distr. * ( Sharkov, 1982) ; 55°9 ′ 19.39 ″ N, 20°51 ′ 1.05 ″ E, KP, Zelenogradsk Distr. , Rybachiy ( Bernotiene, 2012) .

Distribution. KP, LP*, VP*. Adjacent countries: Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. Europe (ranging northward to the UK, Belgium and Denmark). Ukraine, North Africa, Asia Minor.

Note. Aedes rusticus is known within NWR according to several publications, i.e. from St Petersburg ( Fig. 3f ; one locality; Fedorov, 1969), the Vologda Province (two localities; Sharkov, 1982) and the Kaliningrad Province (one locality; Bernotiene, 2012); it has been also recorded from Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania. On the other hand, we cannot confirm the occurrence of Ae. rusticus in European Russia by the material examined, i.e. the species is absent in our collections from the Leningrad Province and absent in the material of ZIN collection from NWR. Khalin & Gornostaeva (2008) did not list Ae. rusticus from European Russia. The species is rare in the most part of its range ( Gutsevich et al., 1970). We consider that the correct northernmost record of Ae. rusticus is that in the Kaliningrad Province.

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