Aedes sticticus

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Aedes sticticus
Systematics
Family : Mosquitoes (Culicidae)
Subfamily : Culicinae
Tribe : Aedini
Genre : Aedes
Subgenus : Ochlerotatus
Type : Aedes sticticus
Scientific name
Aedes sticticus
( Meigen , 1838)

Aedes sticticus ( Syn .: Ochlerotatus stictitus ) is a two-winged bird in the genus Aedes in the mosquito family(Culicidae). The species wasfirstdescribedin 1838 by Johann Wilhelm Meigen under the name Culex sticticus . It isassigned tothe subgenus Ochlerotatus within the genus Aedes .

distribution

The species is distributed in Europe from Northern Europe to the Mediterranean region and as far as Siberia and is also found in North America. Along with Aedes vexans, it is the dominant mosquito species in floodplains and floodplains in high summer in many areas of Europe .

Way of life

The females suck blood and are particularly active during twilight times or in shaded areas. The eggs are laid in the water. They are elongated, 0.51 to 0.61 mm long and asymmetrically shaped. While they are almost straight on one side, they are strongly arched on the other below the center. Their surface is black. The larvae develop mainly during the summer floods in flooded meadows and temporary bodies of water. There they feed on the protozoa , bacteria and algae that live in the water . Their development time is shortened when the waters dry out quickly. The size of the adult mosquitoes does not change significantly due to the shorter development in Aedes sticticus . In Aedes vexans , widespread also in Europe mosquito development time slows down due to low water. In this species, the larvae can survive for a long time in the moist soil, but the adults are then smaller than in normal development. The females can cover distances of up to one kilometer per day, and in total they have a range of at least ten kilometers. When conditions are favorable, they can spread rapidly over a large area.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard C. Wilkerson, Yvonne-Marie Linton, Dina M. Fonseca, Ted R. Schultz, Dana C. Price, Daniel A. Strickman: Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships. PLoS ONE 10, 7, e0133602, July 2015 doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0133602
  2. ↑ R. Zamburlini: 1st isolation of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) sticticus (Diptera, Culicidae) in the Po-Venetian valley. Parassitologia, 38, 3, pp. 555-562, 1996
  3. ↑ SJ Carpenter, WJ LaCasse: Mosquitoes of North America (North of Mexico). University of California Press, Berkeley 1955
  4. ↑ CM Gjullin, WW Yates, HH Stage: Studies on Aedes vexans (Meig.) And Aedes sticticus (Meig.), Flood-water mosquitos, in the lower Columbia river valley. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 43, pp. 263-276, 1950
  5. ↑ Martina L. Schäfer, Jan O. Lundström: Different responses of two floodwater mosquito species, Aedes vexans and Ochlerotatus sticticus (Diptera: Culicidae), to larval habitat drying. Journal of Vector Ecology, 31, pp. 123-128, 2006
  6. Jump up ↑ Martina L. Schäfer, Jan O. Lundström, E. Petersson: Comparison of mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) populations by wetland type and year in the lower River Dalälven region, Central Sweden. Journal of Vector Ecology, 33, 1, pp. 150-157, 2008

literature

  • Norbert Becker, Dusan Petric, Marija Zgomba, Clive Boase, Minoo Madon, Christine Dahl, Achim Kaiser: Mosquitoes and Their Control. Springer, 2010 ( online )

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