Ocelliless Thick-headed Fly
Male, Abdomen, ventral
Mosquito
S2, Female, profile
| Ocelliless Thick-headed Fly Male, Abdomen, ventral | | Mosquito S2, Female, profile | | ||
 | 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". | |||||
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