Culex (Culex) torrentium Martini, 1925

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 : 272

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5094.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E46B86A-1E84-4302-A82D-7D9BB94CB758

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6301592

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03865764-0D35-CB0C-2D93-FAA5FE1DF837

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Plazi

scientific name

Culex (Culex) torrentium Martini, 1925
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27. Culex (Culex) torrentium Martini, 1925 View in CoL

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Published sources: Remm (1057: 157, as Culex exilis Dyar, 1924 ), Burtin (2014: 40), Kirik et al. (2021: 11, as Cx. (Cux.) pipiens / torrentium ).

Voucher material: 1♀, Tartu (58° 22′ 17″ N, 26° 41′ 58″ E), 27.IX.2016, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210228 View Materials , GenBank: OK465178 View Materials GoogleMaps ; 1♀, Tartu (58° 23′ 40″ N, 26° 44′ 05″ E), 08.IX.2016, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210229 View Materials , GenBank: OK465179 View Materials GoogleMaps ; 1♂, Tartu (58° 23′ 44″ N, 26° 43′ 44″ E), 27.IX.2016, H. Kirik leg., H. Kirik det., sweep net, IZBE0210245 View Materials GoogleMaps .

Comment: The adult females of Cx. torrentium are difficult to distinguish from Cx. pipiens based on only morphological characteristics. Of 12 females subjected to DNA barcoding, seven (58.3%) were identified as Cx. torrentium . Adult males of the two species can be distinguished based on structures of their genitalia. In 2013, 68 (51.5%) among 132 males were identified as Cx. torrentium . In 2017, only 54 (39.1%) males were determined to be Cx. torrentium compared to 84 (60.9%) of individuals identified as Cx. pipiens . All things considered, it is reasonable to assume that Cx. torrentium makes up about half of the 1,236 (5.1% of all collected mosquitoes collected) identified as Cx. pipiens / torrentium during in this study. However, the true relative abundance of these mosquitoes may have been underestimated in this study due to collection bias. Culex torrentium and Cx. pipiens are most active at the end of summer, when they become dominant. Seven Cx. torrentium caught in Estonia were analyzed for Wolbachia pipientis using the wsp gene for detection. The results were negative, which is in line with the findings of Bergman & Hesson (2021).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Diptera

Family

Culicidae

Genus

Culex

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