Ocelliless Thick-headed Fly
Male, Abdomen, ventral
Ellura
Mosquito
S2, Female, profile
 
                      
Mosquito (Aedes alboannulatus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)
Order: Flies (Diptera)
Family: Mosquito (Culicidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Mosquito (Aedes alboannulatus)
This Photo:     S2, Female, dorsal
Synonym: Ochlerotatus alboannulatus
Other name: Mozzie

Thank you Stephen Fricker for identifying this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
We originally had id'ed S1, from Ellura, as Ochlerotatus camptorhynchus but Stephen kindly let us know of our error and that Ochlerotatus is now Aedes. He said "easily confused with Ae. camptorhynchus the easiest feature to separate is the pre-apical band on the femur. We have pictures of the two species in our website gallery I also have a simple guide to mosquitoes available"
We originally thought S2, from Lobethal, was Aedes rubrithorax.
Stephen kindly correct us and said "Close. Alboannulatus can be distinguished by the pre-apical band on the hind femur and mottling on the proboscis, which rubrithorax lacks".

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 16-Nov-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.