Aedes berlandi (F)
Aedes berlandi (Seguy, 1921)
Type-loc: France
Differences from Aedes pulcritarsis are metameron with scales and femora completely dark scaled.
Aedes berlandi (F)
Aedes berlandi (F)
Head
- HEAD - THORAX: Anopheles or not : 1. maxillary palpus clearly shorter than proboscis ; 3. scutellum clearly trilobate
- HEAD: colour of maxillary palpus : 2. dark at the base and pale at the apex
- HEAD: colour of proboscis : 1. entirely dark
Thorax
- THORAX: Prespiracular and postspiracular setae : 3. prespiracular setae absent postspiracular setae present - Aedes
- THORAX: colour of the scutum scales : 3. yellow, white and dark
- THORAX: scutum's ornamentation : 3. with 1 to 3 pairs of white dots ; 4. with a large anterior patch
- THORAX: metameron's ornamentation : 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: postprocoxal area's ornamentation : 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: prealar areas ornamentation - Ae : 3. with 1 pale scale patch
Wings
- WING: general ornamentation of the wing : 1. entirely dark
- WING: colour of the scales on the wing veins : 1. dark scales only ; 2. pale scales only along the costal margin
- WING: Uranotaenia or not : 2. apex of anal vein ends after mcu/cuA fork ; 4. length of the R2+R3 vein is shorter than R2/R3
- WING: ornamentation of the base (alula) : 1. with a fringe of scales
- WING: wing length from insertion to apex : ?
Legs
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 2 - Ae : 3. white at the base and apex
- LEG I: Orthopodomyia or not : 2. tarsomere 4 is equal or longer than tarsomere 5 ; 4. length of tarsomere 1 is shorter than tarsomere 2 through 5
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 1 : 3. white at the base and apex
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 5 : 3. entirely white
- LEG III: colour of tibia : 1. entirely dark
Abdomen
- ABDOMEN: colour of the scales on the tergite : 4. with silvery white and dark scales ; 5. with creamy white and dark scales
- ABDOMEN: Shape of the pale basal band of tergite IV : 1. with an even widh
- ABDOMEN: ornamentation of tergite IV : 2. only lateral pale scales ; 3. a basal pale band and lateral patches
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band