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

ABSTRACTImprovement 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, includingAnopheles (12 species),Aedes (24 species),Coquillettidia (one species),Culex (seven species),Culiseta (six species),Orthopodomyia (one species), andUranotaenia (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) andAedes japonicus (Theobald 1901), which are spreading across Europe and Croatia. The other three species,Culex laticinctus (Edwards 1913), Culex torrentium (Martini 1925), andAnopheles 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.
Source: Journal of Vector Ecology - Category: Biology Authors: Tags: Original Article Source Type: research