Bloodsucking dipteran insects (Diptera) attacking humans and animals (the “gnus” complex) in northwestern Russia: I. General characteristics of the fauna

Mosquito Distribution in Northwestern Russia: Species of the Genera Anopheles Meigen, Coquillettidia Dyar, Culex L., and Culiseta Felt (Diptera, Culicidae)

“…In this article we continue the study of bloodsucking insects in NWR, which has been carried out at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN) since 2005. First, we made a general outline of the regional faunas of mosquitoes, blackflies (Simuliidae), horseflies (Tabanidae), and biting midges (Ceratopogonidae) (Medvedev et al, 2007); then mosquito distribution was considered in greater detail (Aibulatov and Khalin, 2019;Aibulatov et al, 2020;Aibulatov, 2020, 2021).…”