Table 2 Mosquito taxa recorded in the study area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania) during the sampling period in 2014 and the host preference determining the possibility to be a potential bridge vector of West Nile virus
Taxa | Involved in West Nile virus transmission elsewhere | Ornithophilic (bird-biting) | Anthropophilic (human-biting) | Potential bridge vector (readily bites both birds and humans) | Source for classification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coquilettidia richiardii (Ficalbi, 1889) | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
Anopheles hyrcanus (Pallas, 1771) | yes | no | yes | no | [14] |
Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 (s.l.) /Cx. torrentium (Martini, 1925)a | (yes)c | (yes)c | (yes)c | yes | [44] |
Aedes caspius (Pallas, 1771) | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
Culex modestus Ficalbi, 1890 | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
Anopheles maculipennis Meigen, 1818 (s.l.)b | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
Aedes vexans (Meigen, 1830) | yes | no | yes | no | [44] |
Unidentified | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
Anopheles algeriensis Theobald, 1903 | no | no | yes | no | [44] |
Aedes sp. | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
Aedes detritus (Haliday, 1833) | no | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
Culex sp. | - | - | - | unclassified | - |
Aedes flavescens (Müller, 1764) | no | no | yes | no | [44] |
Aedes hungaricus Mihályi, 1955 | no | no | yes | no | [14] |
Aedes cinereus Meigen, 1818 | yes | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
Culiseta annulata (Schrank, 1776) | no | yes | yes | yes | [44] |
Uranotaenia unguiculata Edwards, 1913 | yes | no | no | no |