Species Ochlerotatus provocans

Classification · Pronunciation · Identification · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle

Mosquito sp - Ochlerotatus provocans - female

Mosquito - Ochlerotatus provocans - female

Mosquito - Ochlerotatus provocans - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and midges)

Family Culicidae (Mosquitoes)

Subfamily Culicinae

Tribe Aedini

Genus Ochlerotatus

Species provocans (Ochlerotatus provocans)

Pronunciation

prov-oh-canz

Identification

Larva:

- antennae shorter than head, antennal seta 1-A multibranched

- head hair 5 double or triple, head hair 6 usually single

- siphon with more than four times the length of subapical spines

- saddle incomplete, nearly touching ventral margin

Female:

- maxillary palpus entirely dark scaled

- legs dark scaled

- lateral margins of scutum covered with grayish white scales

- postprocoxal scale patch present

- hypostigmal area with pale scales

- mesokatepisternum with scales extending to anterior angle

Habitat

Larvae can be found in temporary woodland snowmelt pools and roadside ditches

Season

Adults: May-July

Food

Females prefer the blood of humans

Life Cycle

- Overwinters as an egg

- Univoltine

Contributed by Omar Fahmy on 3 July, 2007 - 9:00pm

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