Anopheles daciae

Anopheles daciae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Anopheles
Subgenus: Anopheles
Species:
A. daciae
Binomial name
Anopheles daciae
Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach, 2004

Anopheles daciae is a species of mosquito that belongs to the Anhopheles maculipennis complex. Other species of this complex include Anopheles messeae, which can only be distinguished from Anopheles daciae by DNA analysis.

Distribution

The species was first described from Romania, but has since been found in Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Poland, Russia, Serbia, and Sweden.

Taxonomic placement

Ever since it was described, An. daciae was the subject of scientific debate about its existence due to the very small differences between An. daciae and An. messeae. While results from Romania and Great Britain supported the two-species hypothesis, studies from Italy and Russia disputed this. Two studies from Russia and Sweden, which analyzed the DNA with more advanced methods, could finally determine that An. daciae is indeed a species on its own.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nicolescu G, Linton YM, Vladimirescu A, Howard TM, Harbach RE (December 2004). "Mosquitoes of the Anopheles maculipennis group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Romania, with the discovery and formal recognition of a new species based on molecular and morphological evidence". Bulletin of Entomological Research. 94 (6): 525–535. doi:10.1079/BER2004330. PMID 15541192.
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  5. ↑ Linton Y, Lee A, Curtis C (2005). "Discovery of a third member of the Maculipennis Group in SW England". European Mosquito Bulletin. 19: 5–9.
  6. ↑ Di Luca M, Boccolini D, Marinuccil M, Romi R (July 2004). "Intrapopulation polymorphism in Anopheles messeae (An. maculipennis complex) inferred by molecular analysis". Journal of Medical Entomology. 41 (4): 582–586. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-41.4.582. PMID 15311447. S2CID 40315287.
  7. ↑ Bezzhonova OV, Goryacheva II (May 2008). "Intragenomic heterogeneity of rDNA internal transcribed spacer 2 in Anopheles messeae (Diptera: Culicidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology. 45 (3): 337–341. doi:10.1603/0022-2585(2008)45[337:ihorit]2.0.co;2 (inactive 26 May 2026). PMID 18533424. S2CID 41607708.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of May 2026 (link)
  8. ↑ Naumenko AN, Karagodin DA, Yurchenko AA, Moskaev AV, Martin OI, Baricheva EM, et al. (February 2020). "Chromosome and Genome Divergence between the Cryptic Eurasian Malaria Vector-Species Anopheles messeae and Anopheles daciae". Genes. 11 (2): 165. doi:10.3390/genes11020165. PMC 7074279. PMID 32033356.
  9. ↑ Lilja T, Eklöf D, Jaenson TG, Lindström A, Terenius O (September 2020). "Single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of the ITS2 region of two sympatric malaria mosquito species in Sweden: Anopheles daciae and Anopheles messeae". Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 34 (3): 364–368. doi:10.1111/mve.12436. PMID 32160338. S2CID 212677844.