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Anopheles quadrimaculatus - female
Copyright © 2005 Sean McCann

Anopheles quadrimaculatus - Female
Vero Beach, Indian River County, Florida, USA
November 3, 2005
Not the best picture in the world, but a new one for Bugguide. Note the long palps, and slender, long-legged appearance. You can even see the scutellum is round, not trilobed and evenly setose rather than with tufts. Well, maybe you can't see that, but you can imagine...

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Anopheles quadrimaculatus - female Anopheles quadrimaculatus - female Anopheles quadrimaculatus - female
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Contributed by Sean McCann on 4 November, 2005 - 1:15pm
Last updated 5 November, 2005 - 5:03pm

hey man
I was wondering, is this quadrimaculatus light colored because she is from a colony. Almost all quadrimaculatus I have seen are much much darker than yours.
… Omar Fahmy, 11 August, 2006 - 7:29pm login or register to post comments

 
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Could be. A lot of our inbred colony mosquitoes don't really resemble wild ones. They are usually much more drab.
… Sean McCann, 12 August, 2006 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

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