Aedes esoensis rossicus (F)
Aedes esoensis rossicus (Dolbeskin, Gorickaja & Mitrofanova, 1930)
Type-loc: Russia
Global colour is usually grey.
Aedes esoensis rossicus (F)
Aedes esoensis rossicus (F)
Head
- HEAD - THORAX: Anopheles or not : 1. maxillary palpus clearly shorter than proboscis ; 3. scutellum clearly trilobate
- HEAD: colour of maxillary palpus : 1. entirely dark ; 3. with mixed dark and pale scales
- 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 : 1. yellow only
- THORAX: scutum's ornamentation : 1. without well-marked patterns
- THORAX: metameron's ornamentation : 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: postprocoxal area's ornamentation : ?
- THORAX: prealar areas ornamentation - Ae : 3. with 1 pale scale patch
Wings
- WING: general ornamentation of the wing : 1. entirely dark ; 3. with a thin line of pale scales on the costal vein base
- WING: colour of the scales on the wing veins : 1. dark scales only
- 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 : 1. entirely dark
- 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 : 1. entirely dark, at most with a small apical ring
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 5 : 1. entirely dark
- LEG III: colour of tibia : 1. entirely dark
Abdomen
- ABDOMEN: colour of the scales on the tergite : 2. almost completely covered with dark scales
- ABDOMEN: ornamentation of tergite IV : 1. covered with dark scales
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 1. entirely dark