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Gallinipper (Psorophora ciliata)
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Copyright © 2005
Lynette Elliott
Psorophora ciliata
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Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
August 14, 2005
Very large for a mosquito. I was thinking small cranefly as I was taking the shots.
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Contributed by
Lynette Elliott
on 3 September, 2005 - 12:51pm
Last updated 16 June, 2018 - 12:52pm
moved
and page made. Thanks for the ID.
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Lynette Elliott
, 22 September, 2005 - 1:50pm
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PS I would move this image t
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I would move this image to Psorophora, and perhaps make a ciliata page, however, I do not have the ability to do this. It is about time the mosquito section gets fleshed out some. I will do my best to start photographing more specimens, but there is a limit to the size of the objects my crappy little camera can snap. The laboratory I work in has a pretty good macro setup with a scope, but the aesthetics of shots taken in this setting leave much to be desired. details of the side of the thorax, the abdomen, and the legs can often be lost when snapping live critters, and dead ones are not as pretty to look at. If I had one of those Hirox scopes, things would be much different. Anyone got 14 grand I could borrow?
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Sean McCann
, 22 September, 2005 - 11:16am
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Yep.
Looks to be. Here is a page with some ID details. Compare the first site to the second site. The details of the scutum and the proboscis are evident in the diagrams.
By the way, it is a female.
http://www.mosquito-va.org/psorophora_ciliata.htm
http://www.mosquito-va.org/psorophora_howardii.htm
By the way, the book (Carpenter and LaCasse) where the diagrams are taken from, has the most spectacular diagrams you are ever likely to encounter illustrating mosquitoes. They were done by a number of Japanese engravers following the occupation of Japan. If you get a chance to buy this book, do it. Scanned versions and photocopies do not cut it, once you have seen the original. If they could only reissue and update this....
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Sean McCann
, 22 September, 2005 - 10:55am
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