Aedes (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus ( Eckstein, 1918 )

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 : 269

16. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus ( Eckstein, 1918)

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Published sources: Remm (1957: 155), Burtin (2014: 48).

Voucher material: None.

Comment: Three males and 23 females of Ae. nigrinus were previously reported from Estonia ( Remm 1957), but the specimens have not been preserved. No specimens were collected during this study. However, Ae. nigrinus has also been recorded in Lithuania ( Pakalniškis et al. 2000), provinces in northwestern Russia adjacent to Estonia ( Khalin & Aibulatov 2020), Finland ( Harbach et al. 2017; Culverwell et al., 2021) and Sweden ( Lundström et al. 2013). Therefore, this species is likely to be present in Estonia as well.

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FIGURE 3. Maps showing the historic and current collection points of individual mosquito species in Estonia. A, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) dorsalis; B, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) excrucians; C, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) flavescens; D, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) hexodontus; E, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) intrudens; F, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) leucomelas; G, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus; H, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) punctor. For details, see Fig. 2.