Mosquito
Female, whole
Mosquito
Female, feeding
| Mosquito Female, whole | | Mosquito Female, feeding | | ||
 | 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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