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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Culicini » Culex » White-dotted Mosquito (Culex restuans)
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Mosquito - Culex restuans
Copyright © 2011 Mardon Erbland

Mosquito - Culex restuans
47.63059N 52.68760W (WGS84), Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
July 1, 2011
Size: 9mm head to wing tips
This mosquito landed on my left hand and I photographed it using my right hand.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 1 July, 2011 - 7:13pm
Last updated 15 July, 2011 - 6:47am

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… John F. Carr, 15 July, 2011 - 6:47am login or register to post comments

...
looks like Culex restuans. I am not sure if these have been reported for Newfoundland before.
… Sean McCann, 14 July, 2011 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

 
Culiseta?
A comment on another photo in the series says "With the wing vein pattern, I think this is most likely a Culiseta (see the m-r/r-cu veins are nearly parallel)".
… John F. Carr, 23 June, 2014 - 7:07am login or register to post comments

Female
Mosquitoes, black flies, midges, horse flies, and deer flies that bite you are female. The only biting male flies I have heard of look like house flies.
… John F. Carr, 1 July, 2011 - 8:17pm login or register to post comments

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