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

CULICINI 145
FernaLe. Length 4.5 mm. ; wing 4 mm. Proboscis long, black.
Occiput black, a median line of pale scales, black scales at the sides;
the cheeks with broad, flat pale scales; erect, narrow black scales and
setae numerous. Mesonotum black, the scales bronzy-brown, except
at the sides where they are more or less yellowish; bristles numer-
ous. Abdomen black, with broad basal segmental white bands; ven-
ter white scaled, the apices of the segments more or less black scaled.
* Legs black, the femora and tibiae with numerous white scales.
Male hypopygium. (Fig. 1, Pl. XIV.) Side-pieces three times
as long as wide; apical lobe short, rounded, nearly bare; basal lobe
small, narrowly conical, with a single long, marginal spine, numerous
long and short setae. Clasper long, medianly expanded. Claspette
with a long, cylindrical stem; filament long, angularly expanded at
the base, and ends in a sharp point. Mesosome a narrow cylinder,
widely open along its ventral face, closed on the dorsum and at the
base. Lobes of the ninth tergite short, strongly chitinized, and each
bears a number of rather stout spines.
Larva. Length 9-10 mm. Head wider than long; antenna faintly
spined, a small tuft at the middle ; upper and lower head hairs single ;
anteantennal tuft small, of two to four hairs. Lateral abdominal
hairs multiple on the first, double on the second to the fifth segments
and single on the sixth. Comb of the eighth segment of few scales,
10-14, in a single patch. Anal segment about as wide as long, dorsal
plate reaching well down to the mid-ventral line; dorsal brush, a long
hair and a tuft each side; ventral brush large, with smaller tufts in
front of the barred area. Anal gills very long and stout, at least
four times as long as anal segment. Air-tube two and one-half times
as long as wide; pecten on basal third, followed by a tuft.
Aedes warcticzu occurs in the arctic regions of northwestern
Canada extending southward at high elevations along the
Rocky Mountains to Montana. Very little is known of its
habits or biology.
AEDES ABORIGINE Dyar
Aedes aborigih Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., 5, 99. 1917.
Female. Length 5-6.5 mm.; wing 5.5 mm. Proboscis long, slender,
brownish-black. Occiput black, with numerous curved brownish-yel-
low scales; cheeks with broad, appressed, yellowish-white scales; nape
with riumerous erect forked yellowish-brown scales. Mesonotum black,
with numerous curved, narrow yellowish to brownish-yellow scales