a handbook of the mosquitoes of north america - Systematic Catalog ...
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122 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA<br />
Europe. It breeds in early spring pools and flooded meadows<br />
o,f <strong>the</strong> prairies. There is but one brood a season, <strong>the</strong> adults liv-<br />
ing till late in <strong>the</strong> season. Wesenberg-Lund records <strong>the</strong>m as<br />
vicious pests <strong>of</strong> horses and cattle in Denmark, though man is<br />
not exempt.<br />
AEDES RIPARIUS Dyar and Knab<br />
Aedes riparizts Dyar and Knab, Jl. N. Y. Ent. Sot., 15, 213.<br />
1907.<br />
Female. Length 6 mm. ; wing 4.5 mm. Proboscis black, with<br />
brownish scales in <strong>the</strong> middle. Occiput with brown scales, yellow<br />
scales on <strong>the</strong> median area; erect black scales on <strong>the</strong> nape; sides and<br />
cheeks whitish scaled. Mesonotum with very small golden brown<br />
scales, whitish at <strong>the</strong> sides and on antescutellar space. Abdomen<br />
black with basal white bands, <strong>the</strong> whole more or less intermingled<br />
with white scales. Wing scales narrow, dark brown. Femora, tibiae<br />
and first tarsal joint largely white scaled; tarsal joints with broad<br />
white bands at <strong>the</strong>ir bases, <strong>the</strong> bands broadest on <strong>the</strong> hind legs; <strong>the</strong><br />
apical portions black scaled.<br />
Male hypopygiwt. (Fig. 6, Pl. XV.) Side-pieces more than<br />
twice as long as wide; apical lobe prominent, rounded, with many re-<br />
curved setae; basal lobe conical, with numerous stout setae, and a<br />
stout basal spine surrounded by a tuft <strong>of</strong> long setae. Claspette stem<br />
cylindrical; filament <strong>of</strong> claspette sickle-shaped, longer than <strong>the</strong> stem.<br />
Clasper long, slightly swollen in <strong>the</strong> midde. Mesosome cyindrical,<br />
not heavily chitinized; tenth sternites prominent with stout recurved<br />
tips. Lobes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ninth tergite short, with about six to eight long<br />
setae.<br />
This species occurs from Ontario west to Alberta and south<br />
to Colorado and Wisconsin. It breeds in <strong>the</strong> early spring pools<br />
on <strong>the</strong> prairie particularly those near or in small wooded areas.<br />
AEDES ABSERRATUS FeltandYoung<br />
Cztlex absermtus Felt and Young, Science N. S. 20, 312. 1904.<br />
AecCes centrotus Howard, Dyar and Knab. Moq. N. and Cen-<br />
tral Amer. and W.I. 4, 747. 1917.<br />
Aedes dysanor Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 9, 70. 1921.<br />
Female. Length 5 mm.; wing 4 mm. Proboscis black. Occiput<br />
black, clo<strong>the</strong>d with narrow, curved, yellowish-white scales and many