TY - JOUR T1 - Lectotype selection for Aedes quasirustius (Diptera: Culicidae) JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Reinert, John F. SP - 35 EP - 36 AB -

A lectotype is selected from syntype specimens of Aedes quasirusticus Canamares. Condition and label data of the lectotype are provided.

VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A preliminary checklist of European mosquitoes JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ramsdale, Clement D. A1 - Snow, Keith SP - 25 EP - 35 AB -

A list of currently recognised European taxa with synonyms is presented.

VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Autumnal development of vernal mosquitoes in Kampinos Forest near Warsaw JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Wegner, Eizbieta SP - 21 EP - 24 AB -

After sampling during the whole of September had failed to detect any adult mosquitoes, mass emergence of adult Aedes mosquitoes was observed in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw at the beginning of October 1995. The autumnal mosquito fauna was composed of 11 Aedes species: Ae. cinereus, Ae. cantans, Ae. communis, Ae. punctor, Ae. sticticus, Ae. annulipes, Ae. excrucians, Ae. diantaeus, Ae. vexans, Ae. cataphylla and Ae. intrudens. These were present until the middle of November when the first winter frosts appeared.

The summer of 1995 was very hot and extremely dry in Poland, with no rain for almost two months prior to the end of August, when heavy rainfall filled pools usually formed in the spring as a result of snowmelt. This caused the eggs of several normally vernal mosquito species to hatch and develop.

Poland night-time temperatures and the duration of daylight in September are similar to those in March-April. It is considered probable that these factors also contributed to this unseasonal appearance of mosquito species typical of spring. The summer species found at this time had been unable to develop earlier because of the summer drought.

VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The names of European mosquitoes. Part 3 JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Snow, Keith SP - 18 EP - 20 AB -

This article is the third in a series to be published in the Bulletin to add meaning to the names of European mosquitoes. For each entry the name of the taxon is given together with the author and date and the reference to the original description. There is also either a quotation from the original description, translated where necessary, or a resume indicating the author's reason for using the name in question. Where appropriate, a brief explanation of the etymology is provided In cases where the explanation is not clear, correspondence to the editors is invited.

VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distribution of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Poland JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Kubica-Biernat, Beata. SP - 1 EP - 17 AB -

Maps showing the known distribution of the 47 species of mosquito reported from Poland and a bibliography of Polish mosquitoes are presented A brief history of mosquito recording in Poland is also included

VL - 5 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Malaria and Mosquitoes in Britain: the effect of global climate change JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Snow, Keith SP - 17 EP - 25 AB -

Globally, malaria is without question the most important of the insect-bome diseases. At the present time over 2000 million people in over a hundred tropical and subtropical countries of the world live under the threat of the disease. Assessments of the number of people infected vary, but the figure is probably in excess of 400 million. It is estimated that malaria causes, or contributes to, the deaths of between one and three million people each year, mostly children under five years of age (World Health Org;mi7.ation, 1996). The situation in Europe is that, with the exception of the Ural region of Russia and Ukraine (Nikolaeva, 1996), endemically transmitted malaria has been elimin"ted. In 1995 there were 50 cases of endemically transmitted malaria in Bulgaria (Nikolaeva, 1996), indicating that constant vigilance is necessary. Only
female Anopheles mosquitoes, of which there are currently eighteen species recognised in Europe but only five in Britain, can transmit malaria.


The question that entomologists and health woIkers are asking at present is "with global climatic change; will malaria return to these shores as an endemically transmitted disease?" In order to begin to answer this question it is necessary to examine the magnitude of the predicted climatic warming in Britain, the environmental requirements of the malarial parasite and the ways in which mosquito populations might be affected.

VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Obituary: Professor William Robert Horsfall 1908-1998 JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Novak, Robert J. A1 - Olson, Jimmy K. A1 - Strickman, Daniel SP - 15 EP - 16 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Malaria problems in Lithuania JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Žygutiene, M. A1 - Virbaliene, R. A1 - Veitiene, D. SP - 14 EP - 15 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The names of European mosquitoes. Part 2 JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Snow, Keith SP - 11 EP - 13 AB -

This article is the second in a series to be published in the Bulletin to add meaning to the names of European mosquitoes. The first article appeared in issue number 3, pages 12-13. For each entry the name of the taxon is given together with the author and date and the reference to the original description. There is also either a quotation from the original description, translated where necessary, or a resume indicating the author's reason for using the name in question. Where appropriate, a brief explanation of the etymology is provided. In some cases the explanation is not clear and correspondence to the author is invited and additional information will be included in future issues of the Bulletin as letters to the editors.

VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Anopheles labranchiae, an important malaria vector in Italy, and other potential malaria vectors in Southern Europe JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Romi, Roberto SP - 8 EP - 10 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The identity of Culex perexiguus Theobald versus Cx. univittatus Theobald in southern Europe JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Harbach, Ralph E. SP - 7 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The subgenus Rusticoides of genus Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Europe and Asia JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Reinert, John F. SP - 1 EP - 7 VL - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Distribution chart for European mosquitoes JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Snow, Keith A1 - Ramsdale, Clement D. SP - 14 EP - 31 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The names of European mosquitoes. Part 1 JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Snow, Keith SP - 12 EP - 13 VL - 3 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Identification keys of the mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) of continental Portugal, Açores and Madiera JF - European Mosquito Bulletin Y1 - 1999 A1 - Ribiero, Henrique A1 - Ramos, Helena Cunha SP - 1 EP - 11 VL - 3 ER -