Aedes flavescens (F)
Aedes flavescens (Muller, 1764)
Type-loc: Not designated
Impossible to differentiate from Aedes euedes, but the distribution areas are helpful. Very close to Aedes annulipes, Aedes behningi and Aedes cyprius. Lower mesepimeral setae absent.
Aedes flavescens (F)
Aedes flavescens (F)
Aedes flavescens (F)
Head
- HEAD - THORAX: Anopheles or not : 1. maxillary palpus clearly shorter than proboscis ; 3. scutellum clearly trilobate
- HEAD: colour of maxillary palpus : 3. with mixed dark and pale scales
- HEAD: colour of proboscis : 2. pale in the median area
- HEAD: Ornamentation of the antennal integument _ Ae : non décrit
- HEAD: Localization of the antennal seta 1-A : non décrit
- HEAD: Number of branches on the antennal seta 1-A : non décrit
- HEAD; Branch number of seta 6-C : non décrit
Thorax
- THORAX: Prespiracular and postspiracular setae : 3. prespiracular setae absent postspiracular setae present - Aedes
- THORAX: colour of the scutum scales : 1. yellow only ; 2. yellow and cream or white
- THORAX: scutum's ornamentation : 1. without well-marked patterns ; 4. with a large anterior patch
- THORAX: metameron's ornamentation : 1. scale patch present ; 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: postprocoxal area's ornamentation : ?
- THORAX: prealar areas ornamentation - Ae : 3. with 1 pale scale patch
- THORAX: Ornamentation of the insertion point of setae 11-M and 11-T : non décrit
Wings
- WING: general ornamentation of the wing : 8. mixture of pale and dark scales on veins
- WING: colour of the scales on the wing veins : 1. dark scales only ; 2. pale scales only along the costal margin
- WING: number of pale marks on the costal margin : 1. without spots
- 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 : 5. between 4,6 - 5 mm ; 6. longer than 5 mm
Legs
- LEG III: length of the basal ring of tarsomere 2 : 2. >= half of the tarsomere length
- LEG I: tarsal claw's shape : 1. spines not parallel, the first one regularly curved
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 2 - Ae : 2. white at the base
- 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 : 6. scatered with pale scales
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 5 : 2. two coloured
- LEG III: colour of tibia : 7. specled, in the median area at least
Abdomen
- ABDOMEN: colour of the scales on the tergite : 3. almost completely covered with pale scales ; 5. with creamy white and dark scales
- ABDOMEN: Shape of the pale basal band of tergite IV : 1. with an even widh ; 2. medianly thinned ; 3. medianly broken
- ABDOMEN: ornamentation of tergite IV : 10. pale basal band, dark sprinkled area ; 11. covered with pale scales
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band
- ABDOMEN: Siphonal tufts : 3. one pair of siphonal tuft inserted close to the middle or near the apex of the siphon - Aedes
- ABDOMEN: Abdominal plates : 1. abdominal plates absent
- ABDOMEN: Aspect of the setae other than 1-IV to 1-VII : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Shape of the saddle : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Ornamentation of the apicodistal side of segment X : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Shape of seta 9-S : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Size of the siphon : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Shape of comb teeth on segment VIII : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Aspect of the pecten teeth : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Arrangement of the pecten teeth on the siphon : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Comb teeth number : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Anal gill's size and shape : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Precratal setae number : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Insertion of the last pecten tooth : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Arrangement of the comb teeth : non décrit
- ABDOMEN: Insertion of the seta 1-S : non décrit
Distribution
- SAMPLING AREA: North of Mediterranean Sea : Austria ; Belarus ; Belgium ; Croatia ; Czech Republic ; Denmark ; Estonia ; Finland ; France ; Germany ; Hungary ; Latvia ; Lithuania ; Moldova ; Norway ; Poland ; Romania ; Serbia ; Slovakia ; Slovenia ; Spain ; Sweden ; Switzerland ; Ukraine ; United Kingdom
- SAMPLING AREA: East of Mediterranean Sea : Armenia ; Turkey
- SAMPLING AREA: South of Mediterranean Sea : Morocco