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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 » Western Treehole Mosquito (Ochlerotatus sierrensis)
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Mosquito - Ochlerotatus sierrensis - female
Copyright © 2011 R. Berg

Mosquito - Ochlerotatus sierrensis - Female
Alameda County, California, USA
May 19, 2011
Look at that bent proboscis! I don't think she managed to break the skin. She flew away, and I don't have a welt or an itch.

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Contributed by R. Berg on 19 May, 2011 - 11:04pm
Last updated 23 May, 2011 - 11:45pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… R. Berg, 23 May, 2011 - 11:45pm login or register to post comments

Asian Tiger Mosquito
Looks to me like the Asian Tiger Mosquito in the genus Aedes.
… James Shelton, 19 May, 2011 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Range?
According to the data map, California is pretty far west for that species.
… R. Berg, 19 May, 2011 - 11:26pm login or register to post comments

 
They have Spread all over the U.S. and to California
The Data Maps are incomplete, only occuring where people have entered findings. See if someone else agrees then post a finding.


http://cisr.ucr.edu/asian_tiger_mosquito.html
"The Asian tiger mosquito is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread along major transportation routes by human activities, particularly commercial movement of scrap tires, to more than 900 counties in 26 states in the continental USA as well as Hawaii. Aedes albopictus was found again in California in 2001 and sporadically thereafter through 2004"
… James Shelton, 20 May, 2011 - 8:55am login or register to post comments

 
Okay
If that's what it is, it sounds like something to notify the local vector-control agency about. But the guide page says they're vicious biters. This one tried to bite and couldn't.

I thought it might be this species: http://bugguide.net/node/view/52149
… R. Berg, 20 May, 2011 - 11:59am login or register to post comments

 
I'll let an expert weigh in.
I'll let an expert weigh in.
… James Shelton, 22 May, 2011 - 12:13am login or register to post comments

 
...
Looks like Ochlerotatus sierrensis
… Sean McCann, 23 May, 2011 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

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