[Effect of the landscape and climate on the distribution of blood-sucking mosquitoes in Murmansk Province].
According to its orographic characteristics and climate the Murmansk region represents a special landscape area of the Atlantic-Arctic zone with its peculiar zoogeographic characters. This specificity is clearly seen in the distribution of 19 species of bloodsucking mosquitoes over the above territory. Abundant and widely encountered are only two species, Aedes punctor and Ae. communis. 9 species, Culiseta alaskaensis, C. bergrothi, Aedes pullatus, Ae. excrucians, Ae. pionips, Ae. hexodontus, Ae. impiger, Ae. nigripes, Ae. diantaeus, are small in number and widely distributed. 8 species, Anopheles maculipennis, Aedes intrudens, Ae. cantans, Ae. cinereus, Ae. cataphylla, Ae. riparins, Ae. lencomelas, Culex pipiens pipiens, are rare and have a restricted distribution.
D000330:Aedes; D000818:Animals; D002980:Climate; D003465:Culex; D009033:Culicidae; D004463:Ecology; D005843:Geography; D012426:Russia
Vliianie landshafta i klimata na rasprostranenie krovososushchikh komarov Murmanskoĭ oblasti.