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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 » Ochlerotatus grossbecki
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Aedes grossbecki? - Ochlerotatus grossbecki - female
Copyright © 2020 Mark Nenadov

Aedes grossbecki? - Ochlerotatus grossbecki - Female
Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada
June 16, 2016
Brunet Park
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Contributed by Mark Nenadov on 16 June, 2020 - 11:29pm
Last updated 20 June, 2020 - 1:25pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… John F. Carr, 20 June, 2020 - 1:25pm login or register to post comments

Yes, grossbecki
A pretty distinct species.

There appears to be no guide page for the species. Under BugGuide's taxonomy scheme it would be listed as Ochlerotatus grossbecki as BugGuide still uses the outdated taxonomy for mosquitoes.

A little more on that last sentence...

Ochlerotatus was first a subgenus of Aedes before it was elevated to genus level in the early 2000s. In 2015, a paper was published demonstrating why elevating Ochlerotatus to genus level was baseless and since then most mosquito authorities and entomologists have reinstated Ochlerotatus as a subgenus of Aedes.

I can suggest a taxonomy proposal for this in the forum. with links to the Wilkerson paper and other mosquito taxonomy authorities.
… Liam Wolff, 20 June, 2020 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Post in forum
Please post in the taxonomy forum. I didn't think the split was productive on BugGuide even when it was more widely accepted. The subgenera look too similar.
… John F. Carr, 20 June, 2020 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Done
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1838662
… Liam Wolff, 21 June, 2020 - 11:08pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 17 June, 2020 - 7:23am login or register to post comments

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