Aedes cantans
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Aedes cantans ( synonym Ochlerotatus cantans ) is a two-winged fly fromthe mosquito family (Culicidae). Within the collective genus Aedes , Aedes cantans is placed in the subgenus Ochlerotatus .
features
The flies are six to eight millimeters long. The vertex is white, the mesonotum has a dark brown central stripe and a side stripe on both sides. The edge of the mesonotum is scaled white. The tergites are banded white at the base, the tarsi are banded white.
Occurrence and way of life
The animals are common and widespread from Western Europe to Central Siberia. They colonize forests and fly from May to autumn.
Systematics
Aedes cantans belongs to the subgenus Ochlerotatus within the genus Aedes . Ochlerotatus was separated from the genus Aedes by John F. Reinert in 2000 , but was reunited with it by other authors in 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard C. Wilkerson, Yvonne-Marie Linton, Dina M. Fonseca, Ted R. Schultz, Dana C. Price, Daniel A. Strickman: Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships. PLoS ONE 10, 7, e0133602, July 2015 doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0133602
- ↑ John F. Reinert: New classification for the composite Genus aedes (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini), elevation of Subgenus Ochlerotatus to generic rank, reclassification of the other subgenera, and notes on certain subgenera and species. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 16 (3), pp. 175-188, 2000
literature
- Joachim Haupt, Hiroko Haupt: Flies and Mosquitoes. Observation, way of life . 1st edition. Naturbuch-Verlag, Jena and Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-89440-278-4 .
Web links
- Ochlerotatus cantans at Fauna Europaea. Retrieved June 28, 2011