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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Toxorhynchites » Elephant Mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus)
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Elephant mosquito - Toxorhynchites rutilus - male
Copyright © 2008 Lynn Bergen

Elephant mosquito - Toxorhynchites rutilus - Male
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
August 24, 2008
Size: approx. 17 mm.
Found on Feverfew at the edge of a wooded clearing of mainly Beech, Oak, Hickory, and Wild Cherry, on a bluff overlooking Long Island Sound, with a salt marsh fed by a fresh water stream nearby.
I think I freightened him with the flash, he threw a hind leg in the air and took off, which seemed to be an unusual behavior relating to take off.

This appears to be the first BugGuide record for New York.
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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 1 September, 2008 - 3:22pm
Last updated 4 September, 2008 - 7:40pm

Looks like a mosquito to me.
Looks like a male Toxorhynchites rutilus. Elephant Mosquito
… Chris Grinter, 1 September, 2008 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Chris,
for the fast ID. This does look like a good match, which makes it the first post to BugGuide from New York.
… Lynn Bergen, 1 September, 2008 - 4:07pm login or register to post comments

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