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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Anopheles » Anopheles punctipennis
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Mosquito larva - Anopheles punctipennis
Copyright © 2011 tom murray

Mosquito larva - Anopheles punctipennis
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 1, 2011
Size: 6mm
Netted from a weedy edge of a swamp.

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Contributed by tom murray on 1 October, 2011 - 11:59pm
Last updated 9 October, 2011 - 10:23pm

Moved
Moved from Anopheles.
… tom murray, 9 October, 2011 - 10:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
I just checked the larva and it doesn't have any dorsal siphon. Thanks John.
… tom murray, 2 October, 2011 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
Thanks John, that's what I thought it was too, but never saw a green on with a nice pattern on its head.
… tom murray, 2 October, 2011 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

 
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It looks similar to Anopheles, but the defining character is the lack of a dorsal siphon and from directly above it's hard to tell whether there is a siphon.

… John F. Carr, 2 October, 2011 - 6:18pm login or register to post comments

Mosquito?
Probably a mosquito. Maybe something that used to be in the same family.
… John F. Carr, 2 October, 2011 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

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