Contribution to the distribution of mosquitoes in Great Britain, with northernmost records

Abstract We report occurrence data of mosquitoes in Scotland which were routinely collated by the British Mosquito Group for the period 1886 to 1993 (232 records), and by the Mosquito Recording Scheme since 2005 (11 records). We also report a set of new field data mainly based on mosquito immature s...

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Published in:Journal of the European Mosquito Control Association 2024-05, Vol.42 (1), p.31-40
Main Authors: Schaffner, F, Vaux, A.G.C, Medlock, J.M
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Abstract We report occurrence data of mosquitoes in Scotland which were routinely collated by the British Mosquito Group for the period 1886 to 1993 (232 records), and by the Mosquito Recording Scheme since 2005 (11 records). We also report a set of new field data mainly based on mosquito immature sampling in aquatic habitats during the summers 1998 and 2012, in both Scotland (20 data) and England (11 data). The occurrences in Scotland (263 data in total) include a total mosquito fauna of 18 species. They include, for the British Isles, the northernmost record of Anopheles claviger sensu stricto, collected on Orkney, and the northernmost record of Culex pipiens, collected on Shetland, both in 2012. The latter is the northernmost mosquito record of Great Britain to date.
ISSN:2054-930X
2054-930X
DOI:10.52004/jemca20241004