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Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female

Culex tarsalis? - Culex - Female
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
December 10, 2015
Size: 6 mm
Female mosquito attracted to outdoor incandescent light.

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Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female Culex tarsalis? - Culex - female

Probably tarsalis
I think it's tarsalis. Did you get a picture of the pattern on the sternites?

 
This was one of my very first
attempts at insect photography using the Canon lens MP-E 65mm and I did not obtain the angle of view you mentioned. Sorry.

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