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Species Culiseta inornata

There's no blood here... - Culiseta inornata - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

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

Infraorder Culicomorpha

Family Culicidae (Mosquitoes)

Genus Culiseta

Species inornata (Culiseta inornata)

Pronunciation

in-ornah-tah

Identification

Larvae:

- antennal seta 1-A multiple, attached near the middle of the shaft

- head hairs 5 and 6 multibranched

- comb scale rounded apically

- siphon with an even row of single setae attached distally to pecten teeth

- saddle complete

- anal segment seta 1 as long as or longer than saddle

Adult Female:

- proboscis long and weakly recurved

- abdominal terga dark brown with yellowish-white basal bands widening lateraly to width of the segment

- hindtarsomeres intermixed with light and dark scales

- costa, subcosta, and radius intermixed with light and drk scales

Habitat

Larvae live in temporary and semi permanent woodland pools, marshes and edges of ponds

Season

Adults found year round

Food

Females prefer mammals, rarely humans

Life Cycle

- Overwinters as an adult female

- Multivoltine

Contributed by Sean McCann on 4 January, 2007 - 7:54am
Additional contributions by Omar Fahmy
Last updated 6 April, 2007 - 9:29pm

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