01293nas a2200169 4500008004100000245009100041210006900132260001300201300001000214490000700224520077000231100001801001700002101019700002101040700001901061856004301080 2013 eng d00aThree rarely encountered and one new Culiseta species (Diptera: Culicidae) in Germany.0 aThree rarely encountered and one new Culiseta species Diptera Cu c19/12/13 a36-390 v313 a
With few exceptions, systematic large-scale field studies on the mosquito fauna have not been performed in Germany for decades. Thus, up-to-date data on the occurrence and distribution of the indigenous mosquito species are lacking. In particular, there is no information on whether once rare and restrictively occurring species are still present. Here we describe the recent finding of four Culiseta species rarely encountered in Germany: Cs. alaskaensis, Cs. glaphyroptera and Cs. ochroptera, which have always been considered endemic but were seldom found and last reported a long time ago, and Cs. longiareolata, which has recently been found to have established in southern Germany.