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. 2020 Jul 16;119(9):2765–2774. doi: 10.1007/s00436-020-06775-4

Table 1.

Mosquito species listed for Germany by Dahl et al. (1999) and found within the scope of the presented monitoring programme (non-native species with single detections excluded)

Species First documented on the territory of present-day Germany1 Found last in Germany
(documented last2)
Found in this monitoring project Considered established
Adults Immature stages
Trap Mueckenatlas

Ae. (Stegomyia) albopictus

Skuse, 1895

2007 (Pluskota et al. 2008)

(as Stegomyia albopicta)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) annulipes

Meigen, 1830

1898 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. annulipes)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) cantans

Meigen, 1818

1906 (Eysell 1907)

(as Cx. cantans)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) caspius

Pallas, 1771

1928 (Peus 1929) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) cataphylla

Dyar, 1916

1920 (Martini 1920b)

(as Ae. rostochiensis)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Aedes) cinereus

Meigen, 1818

1897 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) communis

de Geer, 1776

1896 (Mohrig 2000) 2018 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) cyprius

Ludlow, 1920

1900 (Edwards 1921)

(as Ae. freyi)

1925 (Peus 1937b) 3

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) detritus

Haliday, 1833

1919 (Martini 1920b)

(as Ae. salinus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) diantaeus

Howard, Dyar & Knab, 1913

1893 (Mohrig 2000) 2017 (this study) + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) dorsalis

Meigen, 1830

1914 (Martini 1920b) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) excrucians

Walker, 1856

1898 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) flavescens

Müller, 1764

1895 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Aedes) geminus

Peus 1970

1968 (Peus 1970) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Dahliana) geniculatus

Olivier, 1791

1898 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. ornatus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) intrudens

Dyar, 1919

1928 (Peus 1929) 2018 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Hulecyteomyia) japonicus

Theobald, 1901

2008 (Schaffner et al. 2009) 2019 (Kampen et al. 2020) + + + +

Ae. (Hulecyteomyia) koreicus

Edwards, 1917

2015 (Werner et al. 2016) 2019 (this study) + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) leucomelas

Meigen, 1804

1896 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) nigrinus

Eckstein, 1918

1932 (Peus 1933) 1993 (Becker and Kaiser 1995) ?

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) pullatus

Coquillett, 1904

1916 (Kühlhorn 1954) 2016 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) punctor

Kirby, 1837

1913 (Kühlhorn 1954) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Rusticoidus) refiki

Medschid, 1928

1897 (Vogel 1931) 2017 (Kuhlisch et al. 2017) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) riparius

Dyar & Knab, 1907

1919 (Martini 1920a)

(as Ae. semicantans)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Aedes) rossicus

Dolbeskin, Gorickaja & Mitrofanova, 1930

1963 (Müller 1965) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) rusticus

Rossi, 1790

1914 (Martini 1920a)

(as Ae. diversus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Ochlerotatus) sticticus

Meigen, 1838

1901 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. sticticus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Ae. (Aedimorphus) vexans

Meigen, 1830

1900 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. vexans)

2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) algeriensis

Theobald, 1903

1931 (Martini 1931) 2019 (this study) + + +

An. (Anopheles) atroparvus

van Thiel, 1927

1931 (Martini et al. 1931) 2016 (Kampen et al. 2016b) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) claviger

Meigen, 1804

1911/12 (Schneider 1913)

(as An. bifurcatus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) daciae

Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach, 2004

2007 (Weitzel et al. 2012) 2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) maculipennis

Meigen, 1818

1931 (Martini et al. 1931) 2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) messeae

Falleroni, 1926

1931 (Martini et al. 1931) 2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) petragnani

del Vecchio, 1939

2015 (Becker et al. 2016, Kampen et al. 2017) 2019 (this study) + + + +

An. (Anopheles) plumbeus

Stephens, 1828

1911 (Schneider 1913)

(as An. nigripes)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Cq. (Coquillettidia) richiardii

Ficalbi, 1889

1896 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Cx. (Culex) hortensis

Ficalbi, 1889

1927 (Peus 1929) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Cx. (Culex) martinii

Medschid, 1930

1935 (Peus 1950) 2017 (Kuhlisch et al. 2018b) + +

Cx. (Culex) modestus

Ficalbi, 1890

1960/61 (Mohrig 1963) 2019 (Kampen et al. 2020) + + + +

Cx. (Culex) pipiens

Linnaeus, 1758

1900 (Mohrig 2000) 2019 (Kampen et al. 2020) + + + +

Cx. (Culex) territans

Walker, 1856

1911 (Schneider 1913) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Cx. (Culex) torrentium

Martini, 1925

1924 (Martini 1924b) 2019 (Kampen et al. 2020) + + + +

Cs. (Culiseta) alaskaensis

Ludlow, 1906

1897 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. annulatus)

2017 (this study) + + + +

Cs. (Culiseta) annulata

Schrank, 1776

1896 (Mohrig 2000)

(as Cx. annulatus)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Cs. (Culicella) fumipennis

Stephens, 1825

1930 (Peus 1950) 2019 (this study) + ? ? +

Cs. (Culiseta) glaphyroptera

Schiner, 1864

1923 (Martini 1924b) 2018 (this study) + + + +

Cs. (Allotheobaldia) longiareolata

Macquart, 1838

2011 (Becker and Hoffmann 2011, Werner et al. 2012) 2019 (this study) + + + +

Cs. (Culicella) morsitans

Theobald, 1901

1911 (Schneider 1913)

(as Culicada morsitans)

2019 (this study) + + + +

Cs. (Culicella) ochroptera

Peus 1935

1928 (Peus 1935)

(as Theobaldia. glaphyroptera)

2017 (Kuhlisch et al. 2019) + + + +

Cs. (Culiseta) subochrea

Edwards 1921

1914 (Martini 1924a)

(as Th. annulata var. ferruginata)

1991 (Becker and Kaiser 1995) ? ? ? +

Ur. (Pseudoficalbia) unguiculata

Edwards, 1913

1994 (Becker and Kaiser 1995) 2019 (this study) + + +
Total number of species 52 48 (49?) 46 (48?) 45 (47?) 50
49 (50?)

+/–: included/not included in the collections; ?: reliable identification not possible due to high morphological similarity and CO1-DNA sequence homology with other species, lack of males and processing of adults only; 1based on literature published from the year 1900 onwards; 2references provided only when most recent documentation occurred before most recent finding in the present monitoring programme; 3should not be considered belonging to the German mosquito fauna anymore