Table 2.
Mosquito taxa recorded in the study area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania) during the sampling period in 2014 and the host preference determining the possibility to be a potential bridge vector of West Nile virus
| Taxa | Involved in West Nile virus transmission elsewhere | Ornithophilic (bird-biting) | Anthropophilic (human-biting) | Potential bridge vector (readily bites both birds and humans) | Source for classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coquilettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889) | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
| Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas, 1771) | yes | no | yes | no | [14] |
| Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 (s.l.) /Cx. torrentium (Martini, 1925)a | (yes)c | (yes)c | (yes)c | yes | [44] |
| Aedes caspius (Pallas, 1771) | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
| Culex modestus Ficalbi, 1890 | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
| Anopheles maculipennis Meigen, 1818 (s.l.)b | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
| Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
| Unidentified | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
| Anopheles algeriensis Theobald, 1903 | no | no | yes | no | [44] |
| Aedes sp. | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
| Aedes detritus (Haliday, 1833) | no | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
| Culex sp. | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
| Aedes flavescens (Müller, 1764) | no | no | yes | no | [44] |
| Aedes hungaricus Mihályi, 1955 | no | no | yes | no | [14] |
| Aedes cinereus Meigen, 1818 | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
| Culiseta annulata (Schrank, 1776) | no | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
| Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards, 1913 | yes | no | no | no | [14, 45] |
aSelected specimens were identified as Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 (s.l.) and Culex pipiens pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 by DNA-barcoding (Fig. 5), bselected specimens were identified as Anopheles messeae Falleroni, 1926 by DNA-barcoding (Fig. 5), c Culex pipiens (s.l.) and Cx. torrentium were not differentiated for most of the collected specimens