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The First Data on Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Yugyd-Va National Park (Komi Republic, Subpolar Urals)

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The paper reports the first results of studying mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in different biotopes of the Subpolar Urals within the Yugyd-Va National Park territory. Field collections were carried out on July 12–15, 2021. As a result, 11 species were found: Aedes communis (De Geer, 1776), A. diantaeus Howard, Dyar et Knab, 1913, A. hexodontus Dyar, 1916, A. euedes Howard, Dyar et Knab, 1913, A. excrucians (Walker, 1856), A. intrudens Dyar, 1919, A. nigripes (Zetterstedt, 1838), A. pullatus (Coquillett, 1904), A. punctor (Kirby, 1837), Culiseta alaskaensis (Ludlow, 1906), and C. bergrothi (Edwards, 1921). Mosquitoes were trophically active round the clock during the polar day. The activity of mosquito attacks depended on the air temperature (Spearman correlation coefficient R = 0.5 at p = 0.005). The tundra species Aedes hexodontus Dyar, 1916 preferred lichen mountain tundra areas.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am very grateful to my colleagues V.I. Ponomarev and O.I. Kulakova (Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia) for the perfectly organized expedition, to other members of the expedition, and to the crew of the Gazpromavia MI-8 helicopter.

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This work was carried out at the Institute of Biology, Komi Science Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences within the framework of State Research Assignment 122040600025-2 “Faunal diversity and spatial ecological structure of the animal population in the Northeast of European Russia and neighboring areas under the conditions of changing environment and economic development.”

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Panyukova, E.V. The First Data on Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Yugyd-Va National Park (Komi Republic, Subpolar Urals). Entmol. Rev. 102, 990–995 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873822070089

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