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

Mosquito - Psorophora ferox
Harvard, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
September 3, 2004
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Contributed by tom murray on 5 August, 2005 - 7:53pm
Last updated 15 September, 2005 - 2:51pm

Looks like Psorophora ferox.
Looks like Psorophora ferox. The white booties on the hind tarsomeres are distinctive. That and the "metallic-puplish iridescence" of the leg scales. A similar species, Ps. mathesoni, has white on the hind tarsomeres, except the 5th, which is dark.
… Sean McCann, 15 September, 2005 - 2:20pm login or register to post comments

 
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Sorry. The similar species is Psorophora mexicana, not Ps. mathesoni.
… Sean McCann, 9 January, 2006 - 8:54am login or register to post comments

 
Psorophora ferox
Sean, thanks for the ID and the info on how you distinguished it from similar species.
… tom murray, 15 September, 2005 - 2:55pm login or register to post comments

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