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

CULICI~I 17.5
Czt$/e.x i&biktor occurs in southern states, north in the Mis-
sissippi Valley, Mexico, Central America and north,ern South
America.
CULEX PECCATOR Dyar and Knab
Culex @cator Dyar and Knab, Smith. Misc. Colls., Quart.
Iss., 52, 256. 1909.
Culex krimimtor Dyar and Knab, do. 52, 2.57. 1909.
Fenzak. Length 3.5 mm, ; wing 3 mm. Proboscis slender, black.
Occiput black, clothed with curved, narrow bronzy-brown scales on
the nape and central area, flat blackish-brown scales on the remainder
except those on cheeks and margins of eyes, white; erect, forked,
black scales numerous. Mesonotum dark brown with narrow, curved,
dark bronzy-brown scales and stiff brown bristles. Abdomen clothed
with dark brown scales with a bluish reflection; a white median
patch on the second segment, and indication of basal bands on third
and fourth; a row of lateral, basal, segmental, white spots. Wings
with narrow brown scales. Legs long, slender, black, femora whitish
beneath.
Hypopygim (Fig. 5, Pl. XVIa.) Side-pieces as long as wide,
sub-pherical in outline, densely clothed with fine hairs on the lower
surface, longer hairs and scales on the lateral surfaces; apical lobe
two branched, the outer branch bearing a rod, two short spines and a
large irregularly shaped leaf-like appendage; the inner branch with
a stout apical rod with hooked tip, and a basal narrow rod with
hooked tip. Clasper short, stout, constricted near base, the apical
half quadrangular in outline, the outer margin hirsute, terminating
in a stout claw and spine. Tenth sternites stout at base and each
terminates in a bent tip with comb-like apex. Mesosome divided,
each half terminates in two stout teeth. Lobes of the ninth segment
triangular, approximate, setose, the outer margins with long, fine
hairs. Preceding segment deeply cleft and densely clothed with
hairs.
Larva. “Head broad and transverse, bulging on the sides, marked
with black in a large patch on the posterior angle and a smaller
patch before the antenna. Antennae large, slightly swollen on the
basal two-thirds, the apical third narrower, a large multiple tuft
at the notch; two terminal setae very long; basal two-thirds white,
stained with brown at the base, outer portion brown. The antennae
when projected forward are considerably longer than the head, dis-