Table 1 Mosquito taxa recorded in the study area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (DDBR) in Romania during the sampling period in 2014 with the number of specimens collected, their respective overall proportion, information if the species was previously known from Romania and the DDBR, and three functional characteristics for each taxon

Coquilettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889)

98276 (40.8552 %)

yes

water

larvae

univoltine

[42]

Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas, 1771)

82073 (34.1193 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[43]

Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 (s.l.)/Cx. torrentium (Martini, 1925)^a

18416 (7.6559 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[42]

Aedes caspius (Pallas, 1771)

13709 (5.6991 %)

yes

land

eggs

multivoltine

[42]

Culex modestus Ficalbi, 1890

9534 (3.9635 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[43]

Anopheles maculipennis Meigen, 1818 (s.l.)^b

9380 (3.8994 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[42]

Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830)

7295 (3.0327 %)

yes

land

eggs

multivoltine

[42]

Unidentified

1041 (0.4328 %)

-

-

-

-

-

Anopheles algeriensis Theobald, 1903

697 (0.2898 %)

no

water

larvae

multivoltine

[43]

Aedes sp.

71 (0.0295 %)

-

-

-

-

-

Aedes detritus (Haliday, 1833)

31 (0.0129 %)

yes

land

eggs

multivoltine

[42]

Culex sp.

10 (0.0042 %)

-

-

-

-

-

Aedes flavescens (Müller, 1764)

5 (0.0021 %)

yes

land

eggs

univoltine

[42]

Aedes hungaricus Mihályi, 1955

3 (0.0012 %)

no

land

-

-

[14]

Aedes cinereus Meigen, 1818

2 (0.0008 %)

yes

land

eggs

multivoltine

[42]

Culiseta annulata (Schrank, 1776)

1 (0.0004 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[42]

Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards, 1913

1 (0.0004 %)

yes

water

females

multivoltine

[43]