Aedes nigrinus (Eckstein, 1918) (diptera, culicidae), a new country record for England, contrasted with aedes sticticus (Meigen, 1838)

Ralph E. Harbach; Thom Dallimore; Andrew G. Briscoe; C. Lorna Culverwell; Alexander G.C. Vaux; Jolyon M. Medlock

doi:10.3897/zookeys.671.12447

Aedes nigrinus (Eckstein, 1918) (diptera, culicidae), a new country record for England, contrasted with aedes sticticus (Meigen, 1838)

Ralph E. Harbach^*
, Thom Dallimore
, Andrew G. Briscoe
, C. Lorna Culverwell
, Alexander G.C. Vaux
, Jolyon M. Medlock

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report the discovery of Aedes nigrinus (Eckstein, 1918) in the New Forest of southern England, bringing to 36 the number of mosquito species recorded in Britain. Because it seems that this species has been misidentified previously in Britain as the morphologically similar Aedes sticticus (Meigen, 1838), the two species are contrasted and distinguished based on distinctive differences exhibited in the adult and larval stages. The pupa of Ae. nigrinus is unknown, but the pupa of Ae. sticticus is distinguished from the pupae of other species of Aedes by modification of the most recent key to British mosquitoes. The history of the mosquito fauna recorded in the UK is summarized and bionomical information is provided for the two species.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-130
Number of pages	12
Journal	ZooKeys
Volume	2017
Issue number	671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.671.12447
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Keywords

Adults
Bionomics
Country records
Diagnosis
Identification
Larvae
Male genitalia
Pupae

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