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

176 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA
tinctly spinose. Head hairs, upper a small tuft of about eight, fine
and short; lower long, single, stout; anteantennal tuft multiple,
coarse and feathered. Skin of the body distinctly pilose. Lateral
comb of the eighth segment of about fourteen scales in a double row,
becoming single below, the scale pointed, thorn-like, not feathered.
Air-tube straight, tapering toward base, about six times as long as
wide, glabrous; pecten of about twelve teeth on basal third of tube,
followed by five paired tufts in a straight line, multiple and diminish-
ing in length outwardly; tube slightly flared at the tip. Anal segment
longer than wide, pilose, ringed by the plate. Anal gills moderate
about as long as the segment.” (Dyar and Barret, 1918.)
Cukx peccator occurs in the southern states. It breeds in
small pools in marshy areas. Very little is known about the
habits of the adults or their breeding grounds.
CULEX STIGMATOSOMA Dyar
C&x stignaatosoma Dyar, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 32, 123.
1907.
C&x eumijq/letes Dyar and Knab, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 35,
61. 1908.
CzAex thriawzbus Dyar, Ins. Ins. Mens., 9, 33. 1921.
Female. Length 4 mm.; wing 4.5 mm. Proboscis black with a
white ring at the middle. Occiput black with pale brownish scales,
the sides with flat, whitish scales. Mesonotum brown, with bronzy-
brown scales more or less intermingled with white ones but forming
no definite pattern. Abdomen black with basal segmental white bands
widening at the sides; venter pale scaled with oval, median, black
spots. Legs black, tibiae and femora white tipped; tarsi with apical
and basal white rings, especially broad on the hind legs. Wing-
scales brown.
Male hyjopygiu+lt. Side-pieces twice as long as wide; apical lobe
with about six appendages-a seta, a leaf, and three rods. Mesosome
erect as in tarsalis. Tenth sternites stout with a crown of slender
spines, basal arm recurved to form a semicircle. Lobes of ninth
tergite small with a few small setae.
Larva. Head wider than long; antenna spined, tuft at the outer
third; upper and lower head hairs multiple. Lateral comb of eighth
segment of many scales in a triangular patch. Anal segment as long
as wide, ringed by the dorsal plate; anal gills as long as segment.