Aedes annulipes

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Aedes annulipes
Systematics
Family : Mosquitoes (Culicidae)
Subfamily : Culicinae
Tribe : Aedini
Genre : Aedes
Subgenus : Ochlerotatus
Type : Aedes annulipes
Scientific name
Aedes annulipes
( Meigen , 1830)

Aedes annulipes ( synonym Ochlerotatus annulipes ) is a two-winged fly fromthe mosquito family (Culicidae). Within the collective genus Aedes , Aedes annulipes is placed in the subgenus Ochlerotatus .

features

The mosquitoes are six to seven millimeters long. They look very similar to Aedes cantans , but their legs are wider, ringed with white. The species name annulipes ("Ringelbein") comes from these broad ringlets. Like many other species of the subgenus Ochlerotatus, the males have strongly pinnate antennae and long hairy distal palpebral limbs .

Occurrence and way of life

The animals are distributed from Western Europe to Russia. They colonize meadows and forests and fly from May to autumn.

Systematics

Aedes annulipes 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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