Posted by totipotent on 19-04-2006 14:29
#8
aleix wrote:
We've written to the Mosquito Control Service, and Eduard Marqu?s, has told us it is not Aedes albopictus but a male of Ochlerotatus geniculatus.
That is good news!
By the way, Catalonia is not in Italy but in north-east of Spain and the south-east of France.
Cheers,
Aleix Comas
Ooopps... The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit's 2001 Systematic Catalog of the Culicidae shows 23 Aedes (Ochlerotatus treated as a subgenus) species in
Spain (berlandi, cantans, caspius, cataphylla, detritus, eatoni, echinus, flavescens, geminus,
geniculatus, gilcolladoi, leucomelas, mariae, pulchritarsis, pullatus, punctor, quasirusticus, refiki, rusticus, sticticus, surcoufi, vexans, and vittatus). It appears
Aedes albopictus arrived later see Paul's source).
Sorry about the mistaken geography...
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