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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 » Eastern Treehole Mosquito (Ochlerotatus triseriatus)
Photo#124810
Culicidae? - Ochlerotatus triseriatus
Copyright © 2007 Mardon Erbland

Culicidae? - Ochlerotatus triseriatus
48.163993N 53.964851W (WGS84), Clarenville, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 2, 2007
Size: 8mm Body Length
I'm pretty sure this is a mosquito but I wonder if the ID can go any further than that?  This may be the same type as I photographed last year:

I think I'm soon going to have to quit letting 'bugs' bite me for the sake of the photo. ;)

What is the red spot and why is it only on one side?

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 6 July, 2007 - 4:19pm
Last updated 5 October, 2013 - 1:35pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Mardon Erbland, 5 October, 2013 - 1:35pm login or register to post comments

i would say
this is a really beat up Oc. triseriatus. whatever she is, she is really beat up
… Omar Fahmy, 8 July, 2007 - 8:17am login or register to post comments

 
I hope not because...
isn't Oc. triseriatus the species that carries West Nile Virus?
… Mardon Erbland, 8 July, 2007 - 9:31am login or register to post comments

 
she is
a potential vector but very very unlikely to transmit the disease. When I was doing WNV/EEE surveillance last year we didn't really worry about a positive Oc. triseriatus. For the mosquito to be a vector it means that she has to bite an infected bird and then bite a human. Oc. triseriatus aren't really bird biters, but there have been virus isolations from them nonetheless.
… Omar Fahmy, 8 July, 2007 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

 
...
Also, you live on that godforsaken cold rock, so it is unlikely you would get temperatures high enough for any mosquito to undergo the extrinsic incubation period necessary for WNV transmission.
(just kidding about the godforsaken part)
… Sean McCann, 8 July, 2007 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

 
...
That could indeed be the case, However, neither Darsie and Ward nor Wood et al. note Oc. triseriatus occurring in Newfoundland.
… Sean McCann, 8 July, 2007 - 8:32am login or register to post comments

 
thats
what i thought. too beat for me to ID.
… Omar Fahmy, 8 July, 2007 - 12:34pm login or register to post comments

Red spot...
I'm guessing is a mite.
… apgarm, 6 July, 2007 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thank you. I guess that 'bugs' can get really, really small!
… Mardon Erbland, 6 July, 2007 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

 
...
It is a mite.
What a weird looking mosquito! Do you have any shots showing the hindlegs in their entirety?
… Sean McCann, 6 July, 2007 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

 
I replaced Photo#124828 with
I replaced Photo#124828 with a wider crop of the same image that shows the full extent of the hindlegs.
… Mardon Erbland, 6 July, 2007 - 6:10pm login or register to post comments

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