Aedes (Ochlerotatus) pullatus ( Coquillett, 1904 )

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 : 279

Aedes (Ochlerotatus) pullatus ( Coquillett, 1904)

Published source: Kirik et al. (2021: 11).

Voucher material: None.

Comment: Mosquitoes with morphological characteristics most similar to Ae. pullatus were found during the study, but DNA barcoding identified them as Ae. communis . These specimens had scales on the hypostigmal area of the thorax, which is unusual for Ae. communis . Aedes pullatus has been previously reported from Lithuania ( Pakalniškis et al. 2000), provinces in northwestern Russia adjacent to Estonia ( Khalin & Aibulatov 2020), Finland ( Culverwell 2018; Culverwell et al. 2021) and Sweden ( Lundström et al. 2013). However, the occurrence of this species in Estonia remains uncertain.