a handbook of the mosquitoes of north america - Systematic Catalog ...

CULICINI 121
CuCex fletcheri Coyuillett, U.S. Bur. Ent. Tech. Ser. 11, 20.
1906.
C&x cyp~iz~s Ludlow, Ins. Ins. Mens. 7, 112. 1920.
Female. Length 6-7 mm.; wing 6.5 mm. Proboscis long, brown,
with a mixture of yellowish scales on basal half. Occiput brown,
with narrow yellowish scales on vertex, broad flat brownish scales
on cheeks, and numerous erect, forked, brownish-yellow scales on the
nape. Mesonotum dark brown, with a broad median stripe of bronzy-
brown scales, the sides, and around the antescutellar space, yellow-
ish scaled, or there may be a blending of the brown and yellow
scales. Abdomen entirely covered with dull yellow scales. Wing
predominatingly yellow scaled with a sprinkling of black scales. Legs
brown scaled, intermixed with yellowish scales; broad white bands
at the bases of all the tarsal joints.
Male hypopygium (Fig. 2, Pl. XI.) Side-pieces more than twice
as long as wide; apical lobe prominent, rounded, with numerous
setae, many of them retrorse; basal lobe a large elongate area, slightly
elevated at the cephalic border, clothed with numerous setae and a
stout recurved spine at the outer cephalic edge accompanied by sev-
tral fine long spines. Clasper long, swollen medianly. Claspette
with stout, cylindrical stem, setose and with three stout setae on the
inner margin near the base; filament long, angularly expanded at the
middle. Mesosome long, cylindrical, widely open along the mid-ven-
tral line, closed on the dorsum and at the base. Lobes of the ninth
tergite short, narrow, widely separated, and each bears four or five
stout spines.
Larva. Head wider than long; antenna spined, multiple tuft near
the middle ; upper and lower head hairs multiple (upper may be some-
times double) ; anteantennal tuft multiple. Lateral abdominal hairs
double on the first to sixth segments. Lateral comb of eighth seg-
ment of maliy scales in a triangular patch. Anal segment longer
than broad, not ringed by the dorsal plate; dorsal brush a long hair
and a multiple tuft each side; ventral brush large, with small tufts
preceding the barred area to the base. Anal gills as long as the seg-
ment, pointed. Air-tube over three times as long as wide, tapering;
pecten reaches the middle, the last two teeth detached, followed by a
multiple tuft.
Cedes flacdcscens is distributed from Ontario westward
through the great American prairies, south to the Dakotas and
north to Hudson Bay. It also occurs in Alaska, Asia and