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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Aedini » Psorophora » Psorophora howardii
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Mosquito - Psorophora howardii - female
Copyright © 2010 Robert Lord Zimlich

Mosquito - Psorophora howardii - Female
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
June 17, 2010
Size: ~16mm
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 18 June, 2010 - 7:03am
Last updated 17 March, 2016 - 9:14pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Omar Fahmy, 29 June, 2010 - 1:37pm login or register to post comments

...
While a badly rubbed Ps. ciliata is a posssibility, I would go with Ps. howardii on this. The proboscis of Ps. ciliata should have the distal 1/2 yellow scaled.
Compare here:
and here:
… Sean McCann, 27 June, 2010 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 25 June, 2010 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

Psorophora
Shared this with a colleague here at the CDC, and we think it is a Psorophora, probably a badly-rubbed P. ciliata (but hard to tell from pic.).
… Blaine Mathison, 18 June, 2010 - 9:15am login or register to post comments

 
Another
I saw another, last night. Possibly same species?



EDIT: Never mind, it's a crane. Eric did say, "they are often mistaken for mosquitoes."
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 20 June, 2010 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

no, a beautiful female mosquito, rather
lovely bloodsucker
… v belov, 18 June, 2010 - 7:31am login or register to post comments

 
WOW
She was a BIG sucker
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 18 June, 2010 - 7:36am login or register to post comments

 
wow indeed
i had no idea there are any that huge. dying to learn the name.
… v belov, 18 June, 2010 - 8:05am login or register to post comments

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