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

124 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA
AEDES PUNCTOR Kirby
Culex punctor Kirby, Richardson’s Fauna Bar.-Amer. 4, 309.
1837.
Cdex inplacabilis Walker, List Dipt. Brit. Mus. 1, 7. 1848.
C&x prozrocans Walker, List. Dipt. Brit. Mus. 1, 7. 1848.
CuZicelsa auroides Felt, Bull. 97, N.Y. State Mu., 449. 1905.
Aedes nzeigenams Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens. 9, 72. 1921.
Female. Length 5-6 mm. ; wing 4 mm. Proboscis long, black.
Occiput black, with numerous narrow, curved, pale yellow scales and
many, erect, slightly forked yellow scales on the nape; cheeks with
flat, broader, pale scales. Mesonotum black, densely clothed with
narrow scales, a distinct median stripe of bright bronzy-brown scales
with a middle line of slightly paler scales, sides and antescutellar
space yellow with a brownish tint. Abdomen black, with narrow
basal segmental bands of white scales; venter white scaled, the tips
of the segments medianly black scaled. Wing veins black scaled.
Legs black ; femora white scaled at tips; tarsi black.
Male hypopygium. (Fig. 4, PI. XI.) Side-pieces nearly three
times as long as broad; apical lobe prominent, somewhat pointed at
the apex bearing numerous short retrorse spines or stout setae; basal
lobe nearly quadrate in shape with a conical apex, densely setose; a
slightly semi-detached lobe bears rather stout spines with a long, curv-
ing spine arising on its outer border. Clasper long, slightly en-
larged in the middle portion. Claspette with stout short, pilose stem;
filament short, slightly widened at middle and terminating in a
curved blunt point. Mesosome a stout, heavily chitinized, elongate
cylinder open along the ventral median line, closed on the dorsum
and at the base. Lobes of the ninth tergite stout, prominent and
each bears six or more short stout spines.
Larva. (Fig. 4, Pl. XX.) Length 5-6 mm. Head much wider
than long. Antenna short, spined all over; tuft before the middle.
Dorsal head hairs in twos, sometimes one and two and occasionally
only one each; anteantennal tuft short. Abdomen stout ; lateral
hairs in twos on the first segment, single on the second to the seventh;
other hairs small. Eighth segment bears a comb of 8 to 17 scales
arranged in a double row. Anal segment longer than wide, ringed
by the plate; dorsal brush consists of a pair of long hairs and two
shorter multiple tufts ; ventral brush well developed, extending well
beyond the barred area and confined by the plate. The anal gills are
long and tapering. Air-tube stout, gradually tapering, three times
as long as wide; pecten evenly spaced, not reaching the middle of