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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Aedini » Aedes » Inland Floodwater Mosquito (Aedes vexans)
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Mosquito - Aedes vexans - female
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Mosquito - Aedes vexans - Female
Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
June 11, 2006
another mosquito looking for a genus
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Contributed by tom murray on 12 June, 2006 - 9:34pm
Last updated 28 August, 2006 - 7:31am

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This one I would hesitate to say. I would need to see the abdomen.
… Sean McCann, 13 June, 2006 - 8:20am login or register to post comments

 
i would hesitate to
say too. but i you can see the leg banding. according to all the traps we have been setting up we have got mainly Ae. vexans. thats what i would say this is.
… Omar Fahmy, 13 June, 2006 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again Omar
You really know your mosquitoes:-)
… tom murray, 14 June, 2006 - 7:09am login or register to post comments

 
no prob. here is some info
pretty easy mosquito to ID. narrow pale basal bands on hind tarsomeres. dark scales on the wings and an unbanded proboscis. easily ID'd from the "B" shaped markings on the abdomen.

the larvae live in temporary freshwater pools and depressions. it also overwinters as an egg. (multivoltine)

these mosquitos bite mammals and are known to travel distances from their breeding sites unlike other mosquitos (1)
… Omar Fahmy, 14 June, 2006 - 7:30pm login or register to post comments

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