PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES RESEARCH ARTICLE Monitoring of alien mosquitoes in Western Austria (Tyrol, Austria, 2018) 1 1 2 1 Hans-Peter FuehrerID *, Ellen SchoenerID , Stefanie Weiler , Bita Shahi Barogh , 1,3 2,4 Carina ZittraID , Gernot Walder 1 Department of Pathobiology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2 Dr. Gernot Walder GmbH, Austria, 3 Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 4 Division of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria *
[email protected] a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 a1111111111 Abstract a1111111111 Mosquitoes are of major importance to human and animal health due to their ability to trans- mit various pathogens. In Europe the role of mosquitoes in public health has increased with the introduction of alien Aedes mosquitoes such as the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopic- tus; the Asian bush mosquito, Ae. japonicus; and Ae. koreicus. In Austria, Ae. japonicus has OPEN ACCESS established populations in various regions of the country. Aedes albopictus is not known to Citation: Fuehrer H-P, Schoener E, Weiler S, overwinter in Austria, although isolated findings of eggs and adult female mosquitoes have Barogh BS, Zittra C, Walder G (2020) Monitoring of been previously reported, especially in Tyrol. Aedes koreicus had not so far been found in alien mosquitoes in Western Austria (Tyrol, Austria, 2018). PLoS Negl Trop Dis 14(6): e0008433. Austria. Within the framework of an alien mosquito surveillance program in the Austrian https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008433 province of Tyrol, ovitraps were set up weekly from May to October, 2018, at 67 sites± 17 in Editor: Michael J Turell, INDEPENDENT East Tyrol and 50 in North Tyrol.