![]() | Mosquito Female, whole | Mosquito Female, feeding | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | |||||||||||||||||
Order: | Flies (Diptera) | |||||||||||||||||
Family: | Mosquito (Culicidae) | |||||||||||||||||
Species: | Mosquito (Aedes camptorhynchus)This Photo: | Female, wing venation | Synonym: | Ochlerotatus camptorhynchus | Other name: | Mozzie | General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Mosquitoes look a lot like Midges. An easy differentiator is that, at rest, mozzies hold their rear legs up, midges hold their front legs up. Depending on the photo, a more guaranteed identifier is that Mosquitoes have a very long mouths / proboscis (straw like appendage that males drink nectare from and females suck blood with). The proboscis is made of two parts, a thin inner "straw" and an outer sheath. The sheath protects the actual proboscis. It can be seen in the feeding shot here.
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