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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Aedini » Aedes » Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti)
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Little Mosquito - Aedes aegypti - female
Copyright © 2019 Robert Ransom

Little Mosquito - Aedes aegypti - Female
San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California, USA
October 11, 2019
Size: approximate 4mm

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Contributed by Robert Ransom on 11 October, 2019 - 5:52pm
Last updated 13 February, 2020 - 8:11am

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Tyler Hedlund, 13 February, 2020 - 8:11am login or register to post comments

Looks like...
something in the genus Aedes.

According to this LA Times article from late last summer, Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger Mosquito) and Aedes aegyptai (Yellow Fever Mosquito) have been moving in rapidly.

I'm no expert, but I don't think it's the tiger. Tigers have a white stripe that goes right down the middle of the top of the thorax. This one doesn't.

I'm not sure it's the yellow fever mosquito, either.
… Kurt Foster, 12 October, 2019 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

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