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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 » Dark Ricefield Mosquito (Psorophora columbiae)
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Mosquito - Psorophora columbiae - female
Copyright © 2005 Lynette Elliott

Mosquito - Psorophora columbiae - Female
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
September 10, 2004
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Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 5 March, 2005 - 6:13am
Last updated 13 May, 2008 - 10:12am

dont think
this is a sollicitans, unless the scales have been really rubbed off dont know what it is
… Omar Fahmy, 24 June, 2006 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

 
Psorophora columbiae
I was just browsing through, and I am sure what you have is a Psorophora columbiae. Check out the subapical bands on the femora, and the broad yellowish white band on the proboscis.
You can compare to this:
… Sean McCann, 1 July, 2006 - 8:42am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Sean.
… Lynette Elliott, 1 July, 2006 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

 
...
No hay problemo.
Nice to get another example of this species, except when I have seen them, there are thousands of examples all trying to bite me!
… Sean McCann, 1 July, 2006 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

Saltmarsh Mosquito
It seems that the current name for this is Ochlerotatus sollicitans. I will write up an info page.
… Richard Leung, 14 March, 2005 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

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