Hygiena 2024, 69(3):97-100 | DOI: 10.21101/hygiena.a1867

The overwintering of the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus in the Czech Republic as a prerequisite for its establishment

Oldřich Šebesta1, 2, Martin Janouch3, Kristína Mravcová1, Silvie Šikutová1, Ivo Rudolf1, 4
1 Akademie věd České republiky, Ústav biologie obratlovců Akademie věd České republiky, v. v. i., Brno, Česká republika
2 Krajská hygienická stanice Jihomoravského kraje se sídlem v Brně, Brno, Česká republika
3 Univerzita Karlova, 3. lékařská fakulta, Praha, Česká republika
4 Masarykova univerzita, Přírodovědecká fakulta, Ústav experimentální biologie, Brno, Česká republika

At the end of March 2024 in Borovany in South Bohemia in a garden pond in the vicinity of a private house a number of larvae (15 individuals per dm3) and some pupae were found which were later, based on hatched imagery, identified as the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus. Given the early finding of larvae, their number and age, we can conclude that this is the first record of the invasive genus Aedes overwintering in our area.

Keywords: mosquitoes - invasive species, infectious diseases - vectors, Czech Republic

Received: September 2024; Accepted: September 8, 2024; Published: September 30, 2024  Show citation

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Šebesta O, Janouch M, Mravcová K, Šikutová S, Rudolf I. The overwintering of the invasive mosquito species Aedes koreicus in the Czech Republic as a prerequisite for its establishment. Hygiena. 2024;69(3):97-100. doi: 10.21101/hygiena.a1867.
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