Aedes leucomelas

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Aedes leucomelas
Systematics
Family : Mosquitoes (Culicidae)
Subfamily : Culicinae
Tribe : Aedini
Genre : Aedes
Subgenus : Ochlerotatus
Type : Aedes leucomelas
Scientific name
Aedes leucomelas
( Meigen , 1804)

Aedes leucomelas ( synonym Ochlerotatus leucomelas ) is a two-winged species ofthe mosquito family (Culicidae). Within the collective genus Aedes , Aedes leucomelas belongs to the subgenus Ochlerotatus .

features

The mosquitoes are five to six millimeters long. The sides of the thorax are strongly scaled, and the proboscis is also brightly scaled. The mesonotum has golden, shiny beige scales in the middle. The legs are not curled, the tergites are broadly banded. As with many other Ochlerotatus species, the males have strongly feathered antennae and long hairy distal palpebral limbs .

Occurrence and way of life

The animals are common all over Europe. They inhabit open meadows and forest edges. They fly in spring.

Systematics

Aedes leucomelas 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. The group of mosquitoes, which previously belonged to the genus Ochlerotatus , is now placed in the subgenus of the same name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ 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 .

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