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Culex nigripalpus - female
Copyright © 2008 Mark Fox

Culex nigripalpus - Female
New Orleans, Uptown in house, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
November 28, 2008
Size: ~5mm
Dorsal thorax. Note gold scales on occiput (behind eyes).

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Contributed by Mark Fox on 30 November, 2008 - 9:11pm

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Are you sure it is not something in subgenus Melanoconion? I was thinking those light scales behind the eye look a bit broad. Also I don't think I see any middorsal acrostichal setae. Perhaps it could be Culex peccator.
I could be wrong though. I probably am.
… Sean McCann, 1 December, 2008 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Chalk it up to my wonky photography.
While the lighting I used made the colors dazzle, it totally obscured key features such as the ones you mentioned. I took another photo of the same specimen, with a ring lamp directly overhead, and the setae just popped right out. I just uploaded it.
… Mark Fox, 1 December, 2008 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

 
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Cool! Thanks!
… Sean McCann, 1 December, 2008 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

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