Naslov
Updated checklist of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of Croatia

Autori
Merdić, Enrih ; Klobučar, Ana ; Žitko, Toni ; Sudarić Bogojević, Mirta ; Vrućina, Ivana ; Turić, Nataša ; Vignjević, Goran

Izvornik
Journal of vector ecology (1081-1710) 45 (2020), 1; 135-139

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Checklist, mosquitoes, Culicidae, Croatia, Europe, invasive species

Sažetak
Improvement of morphological and molecular identification methods allows the detection of new species of mosquitoes. The mosquito fauna of Croatia currently includes 52 species, belonging to eight genera, including Anopheles (12 species), Aedes (24 species), Coquillettidia (one species), Culex (seven species), Culiseta (six species), Orthopodomyia (one species), and Uranotaenia (one species). This is an updated checklist, which includes five new species found in Croatian mosquito fauna. Two of these are invasive mosquito species, Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1895) and Aedes japonicus (Theobald 1901), which are spreading across Europe and Croatia. The other three species, Culex laticinctus (Edwards 1913), Culex torrentium (Martini 1925), and Anopheles daciae (Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach 2004) are autochthonous species which haven’t been recorded so far. Since there are several more invasive species spreading across Europe, we assume that this is not the final list.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Biologija

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