Identifying vectors- Culicidae

Mosquito Identification

What mosquito is this, and how do you know?

Toxorhynchites rutilis

What mosquito is this, and how do you know?

Anopheles punctipennis

Legs are dark-scaled without distinctive markings, palps are entirely dark-scaled, wings are black and pale yellow with the base vein RS white-scaled, and Costa with aprical is pale and subcosal with pale spots

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Anopheles quadrimaculatus

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Aedes albopictus

Thorax has one silvery-white line of scales near the middle of the pleuron and scutum, with a single silvery-white line running along the center. The abdomen has silvery white lines, and the legs are broad with white bands on the last tarsal, and the hind leg is white.

What mosquito is this, and how do you know?

Aedes triseriatus

The thorax scutum has silvery white scales near the edges, and the pleuron is mostly covered in silvery white scales. The abdomen has silver scale patches on the dorsal side that appear triangular when viewed laterally. Legs are entirely dark scaled.

What mosquito is this, and how do you know?

Aedes dorsalis

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Aedes aegypti

Thorax scutum has white lyre markings. Legs are distinctly marked with silvery/white scale patches

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Culex pipiens

Legs are entirely dark. Thorax scutal is an integumental pale yellow or brown. Wings are entirely dark-scaled.

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Culex tarsalis

What Genus is this, and how do you know?

Anopheles

No siphon at the end, has spiracus instead. Palmate setae

Palps as long as the head and thorax scutellum are evenly rounded.

What Genus is this, and how do you know?

Aedes

The abdomen has a siphon at the end with pectin spines and one pair of setae.

Abdomen is pointed in females, thorax has no prespiracular setae, and dorsal wings are scaled, long, and slender

What Genus is this, and how do you know?

Culex

The abdomen contains a “longer and hairier” siphon at the end with pectin spines and many pairs of setae.

The abdomen is rounded, the thorax has pre- and postspiracular setae that are absent, and the wings have fringe scales.