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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Wyeomyia » Northern Pitcher-Plant Mosquito (Wyeomyia smithii)

Species Wyeomyia smithii - Northern Pitcher-Plant Mosquito

Classification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Remarks · See Also · Internet References
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))
Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)
Family Culicidae (Mosquitoes)
Genus Wyeomyia
Species smithii (Northern Pitcher-Plant Mosquito)
Range
Newfoundland south to Delaware, west to northern Illinois and northwest into Saskatchewan
Habitat
Eggs, larvae, and pupae found only within the water-holding pitcher-leaves of S. purpurea. Adults not known to stray far from these plants either. Plant is found almost exclusively in Sphagnum-rich environments such as peat bogs or Longleaf Pine savannahs.
Life Cycle
Obligate breeder on the northern subspecies of the Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea gibbosa).
Remarks
This species overwinters as a larva, frozen in the block of ice that forms inside its pitcher after the weather turns cold enough.
See Also
Not known to overlap in range with the Southern Pitcher-Plant Mosquito (W. haynei)
Internet References
Rutgers Center for Vector Biology
Contributed by Will Chatfield-Taylor on 19 June, 2016 - 9:47am
Additional contributions by Joshua Stuart Rose
Last updated 3 July, 2020 - 11:27pm

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