Abstract
In June 2019, a single specimen collected at a used tyre company was identified as Aedes flavopictus (Yamada, 1921), a sibling species of Ae. albopictus. Ae. flavopictus has not been recorded outside Japan and South Korea. Although it has only shown dengue virus vector competence under laboratory conditions, its detection demonstrates the value of active surveillance at risk locations and molecular tools for timely intervention against exotic mosquitoes with potential future public health impact.
Highlights
In June 2019, a single specimen collected at a used tyre company was identified as Aedes flavopictus (Yamada, 1921), a sibling species of Ae. albopictus
From 2010 onwards, an annual quantitative risk assessment of all used tyre companies known to import tyres into the Netherlands is performed by the Centre for Monitoring of Vectors (CMV) of the National Reference Centre (NRC) of the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) for the purpose of assessing the risk of invasive mosquito species (IMS) introduction
In CLIMEX, the similarity of the climate is measured by the Composite Match Index (CMI), a value between zero and one, with higher values corresponding to a greater match between locations [7]
Summary
Citation style for this article: Ibáñez-Justicia Adolfo, van de Vossenberg Bart, van den Biggelaar Rens, Voogd Joris, Metz Eveline, Jacobs Frans, Dik Marian, Stroo Arjan. Ae. flavopictus has not been recorded outside Japan and South Korea It has only shown dengue virus vector competence under laboratory conditions, its detection demonstrates the value of active surveillance at risk locations and molecular tools for timely intervention against exotic mosquitoes with potential future public health impact. On 13 June 2019, in a sample of mosquitoes captured in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands during routine surveillance, a specimen was recognised as potentially belonging to an exotic species. Based on the molecular analysis of the specimen, we concluded that it belonged to Aedes flavopictus (Yamada, 1921) To our knowledge, this is both the first time that this species has been reported outside its area of origin in north-east Asia and associated with the import of used tyres. Samples collected from used tyre companies are labelled in the field with a unique code, sealed and sent to the vector specialists of the CMV for further analysis
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