Balkan Peninsula
Alexandra Cupina from Novi Sad, Serbia-Montenegro continues her work on black flies. They are organizing The 2nd International Simuliidae Symposium in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, 3-6 September 2006. Anyone interested on it can see: http://polj.ns.ac.yu/english/news.htm.

England
Keith Snow was the former representative from the UK. His interests are in the distribution of European mosquitoes and is the Editor of the European Mosquito Bulletin. He is the author of several books including "Mosquitoes" in the Naturalists' Handbooks series (1990) which deals with UK species, "Mosquito Control in Britain" (1995), co-authored with Clem Ramsdale, and "A provisional atlas of the mosquitoes of Britain" (1998). In a recent article in the journal "Biologist" (2000) he appraised the possibilities for the reintroduction of malaria into Britain.

France
Francis Schaffner and Professor Brunhes have made the CD interactive key for the Mosquitoes of Europe.

Germany
Matthias Beck has made a study concerning the mosquito fauna of Luxembourg including and the breeding sites in the country. During 2001, 12 sites were sampled using CO2 traps, human landing and dipping larvae techniques. During the sampling campaign, 15 species were identified from the genera Anopheles, Culex and Culiseta. This work was presented during the 3rd International Congress of SOVE in Barcelona.

Greece
Anna Sammanidou reported the start of mosquito surveillance in Marathon area, about 50 Km NE Athens. The study revealed a new Greece record, Culex tritaeniorhynchus. Sporadic specimens were collected during summer in coastal temporary marshes together with Anopheles sacharovi, Culex modestus and others. This has been published in the European Mosquito Bulletin.

Italy
Guido Sabatinelli presented the MOS-KEY-TOS, software for interactice identification of eggs, IV instars, pupae, adults with INTKEY, and DELTA software data and files of MOS-KEY free of charge. The Italian monograph of immature stages is in press.

Poland
Beata Biernat is working in "Mosquito fauna of the Gdansk agglomeration" . Furthermore Elzbieta Wegner is currently working on: "Mosquito fauna of Narew National Park (Eastern Poland)" and "Phenology of mosquitoes in different regions of Poland".

Russia
Dr. Stegnii and collaborators: Ecological and genetical mechanisms of adaptation of Anopheles maculipennis complex in natural populations.

The publication of the book "Culex pipiens mosquitoes: taxonomy, distribution, ecology, physiology, genetics, applied importance and control" of E.B.Vinogradova. Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 2000, -250 pp.
It includes the chapter 4. Principles of Culex pipiens genetics by Prof. Zakharov I.A.
This is a translation from the Russian edition of the first review in Russian on mosquito genetics. The Editor House sells books through the Internet: www.pensoft.net.

Rumania
Gabriela Nicolaiescu from the Cantacuzino Institute is working in the mosquito distribution in her country. Romaina has 55 mosquito species known. Several works are focused in the distribution of An atroparvus, An. subalpinus and An. melanoon.

Spain
Carlos Aranda and Raul Escosa are finishing the study of the Culicidae of Andorra. Roger Eritja and others are following the invasion of Aedes albopictus in Spain. An article of the first finding of this species has been recently published by Aranda et. al. in the Medical and Veterinary Entomology. See: Aranda et al.
Rosario Melero-Alcíbar from the Nacional Center of Microbiology, Institute Carlos III of Madrid is, since 2007, next representative for Spain.

Sweden
"Biologisk Myggkontroll, Nedre Daläven". The creation of a new group for controlling inundation mosquitos in Southern Sweden.