Aedes (Ochlerotatus) impiger

• Main Authors: Harbach, Ralph E., Wilkerson, Richard C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Culicidae; Aedes; Aedes impiger; Albany River; Arkhangelsk; kola peninsula; nenets; Tundra; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8057041; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/161B87CDBA100A73FF54FCC8FBC95D47

Aedes ( Ochlerotatus ) impiger (Walker) subspecies daisetsuzanus Tanaka, Mizusawa & Saugstad, 1979 —original combination: Aedes ( Ochlerotatus ) impiger daisetsuzanus . Distribution: Hokkaido Japan (Hokkaido Island) (Tanaka et al . 1979). subspecies impiger (Walker, 1848) —original combination: Culex impiger . Distribution: Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia (Northwestern Region), Sweden, United States (Alaska, continental) (Wilkerson et al . 2021, incorrectly listed from Japan), tundra of Russia (Gutsevich 1971, 1974). The nominotypical subspecies was described from “Martin’s Falls”, Ontario, Canada, located at 51.30 N, 86.20 W. This locality was listed for many of Walker’s species as St. Martin’s Falls, Albany River, Hudson’s Bay, but was corrected to “Martin’s Falls” by Handfield & Handfield (2020). The exact type locality is therefore unknown since the place name only represents the shipping origin. Belkin (1968) found “Two ♀ … apparently part of type series” in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London, one of which he designated as the lectotype. Other entries in Wilkerson et al. (2021) with the anomalous “St. Martin’s Falls” include Culex implacabilis Walker, 1848, synonym of Aedes ( Ochlerotatus ) punctor (Kirby, 1837), and Culiseta ( Culiseta ) impatiens (Walker, 1848). The adult female, male genitalia and larva of the nominotypical subspecies were described in detail by Carpenter & LaCasse (1955), Gutsevich et al. (1971, 1974) and Becker et al . (2020). Ecologically, it is a univoltine early season species, which “is found in the treeless arctic regions of Alaska, Canada, Scandanavia [ sic ] and Siberia. Its range is known to extend southward to Utah and Colorado at the higher elevations. The larvae. are found in clear pools of water formed by melting snow at high elevations in mountains where alpine arctic conditions prevail” (Carpenter & LaCasse 1955). In Russia, Gutsevich et al . (1971, 1974) recorded it from “.the Kola Peninsula, in the Arkhangelsk Region, Nenets National ...