Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans (Meigen, 1830)

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 : 51

Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans (Meigen, 1830)

Northernmost records ( Fig. 2c ). 62°3 ′ 30.4 ″ N, 36°39 ′ 18.26 ″ E, RK, Pudozh Distr. ( Lobkova, 1964) ; 67°29 ′ 16.02 ″ N, 51°52 ′ 52.23 ″ E, NAR, Zapolyarnyy Distr., Kamenka ( Monchadsky, 1950) ; 62°16 ′ 32.8 ″ N, 50°40 ′ 3.54 ″ E, Komi, Knyazhpogostskiy Distr., Lyali ( Panyukova & Ostroushko, 2017) .

Distribution. NWR: AP, Komi, KP, LP, NAR, NP, PP, RK, SPb, VP. Adjacent countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Belarus. Europe (ranging northward to the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark), Cosmopolitan, except for Polar regions, Australia, and South America.

Note. The record from Kamenka, Nenets Autonomous Region ( Monchadsky, 1950), is located significantly farther north than the main part of the range. However, there is a record in Sweden located near the Arctic Circle: Övertorneå, 66°23 ′ N, 23°40 ′ E ( Blomgren et al., 2018).

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Fig. 2. Northernmost records of Anopheles and Aedes spp. Doubtful records are marked with an asterisk (*).