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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Aedini » Ochlerotatus
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Mosquito - Ochlerotatus
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

Mosquito - Ochlerotatus
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 9, 2005
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Contributed by tom murray on 11 June, 2005 - 9:17pm
Last updated 7 August, 2008 - 6:11pm

Moved
Moved from Culiseta inornata.
… tom murray, 7 August, 2008 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… tom murray, 7 August, 2008 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Oops.
I looked through my keys and it is definitely not Culiseta inornata.
I agree that it is probably Ochlerotatus, and though I'm not totally sure, it may be Oc. cinereus or aurifer.
… Mark Fox, 7 August, 2008 - 5:57pm login or register to post comments

It may be Culiseta inornata.
I'm looking through the species account in Mosquitoes of North America (Carpenter & LaCasse 1955), and it matches exactly for all the characters I can see in the photo. I also seem to recall, for the Cs. inornata I've caught, that they had the same faintly purplish sheen on the darker scales, just like this one.
… Mark Fox, 5 August, 2008 - 8:41pm login or register to post comments

man
this mosquito is like a cross between an Aedes and a Toxorhynchites. its killing me
… Omar Fahmy, 27 June, 2006 - 10:15pm login or register to post comments

 
...
If those light bands on the abdomen didn't look basal, I might think of Psorophora cyanescens. Did you get any other shots showing the abdomen a little more clearly? Or perhaps you have a higher-res version of this one?
Anyway, it may remain a mystery.
… Sean McCann, 2 July, 2006 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Sean
I replaced the image with a larger picture. When you click on the full size picture, does that help?
… tom murray, 5 July, 2006 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
They still look basal to me. I would guess this is an Ochlerotatus but I can't really go beyond that.
… Sean McCann, 22 July, 2006 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

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