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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera) » Mosquitoes and Midges (Culicomorpha) » Mosquitoes (Culicidae) » Toxorhynchites » Elephant Mosquito (Toxorhynchites rutilus)
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the killer - Toxorhynchites rutilus
Copyright © 2006 Omar Fahmy

the killer - Toxorhynchites rutilus
Pawcatuk, Stonington County, Connecticut, USA
September 23, 2006
YES! found their colony up North.

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another shot of the ferociousness - Toxorhynchites rutilus the killer - Toxorhynchites rutilus the killer - Toxorhynchites rutilus - female
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Contributed by Omar Fahmy on 23 September, 2006 - 5:58pm

Moved
Moved from Mosquitoes.
… Omar Fahmy, 23 September, 2006 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

 
Colony?
What kind of habitat? Also, were there more than 1?
… Sean McCann, 24 September, 2006 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

 
from a tire
there were many more. we heard of a permanent Ae. albopictus colony so we were looking there. But we have found these instead
… Omar Fahmy, 24 September, 2006 - 6:32pm login or register to post comments

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