Aedes leucomelas (F)
Aedes leucomelas (Meigen, 1904)
Type-loc: Europe
Has dark tarsi, abdominal tergites with pale basal bands more or less narrowed in the median part. The identification demands a detailed examination of thoracic pleurae.
Aedes leucomelas (F)
Aedes leucomelas (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
Thorax
- THORAX: Prespiracular and postspiracular setae : 3. prespiracular setae absent postspiracular setae present - Aedes
- THORAX: colour of the scutum scales : 2. yellow and cream or white
- THORAX: scutum's ornamentation : 1. without well-marked patterns ; 2. with continuous bands
- THORAX: metameron's ornamentation : ?
- THORAX: postprocoxal area's ornamentation : ?
- THORAX: prealar areas ornamentation - Ae : 3. with 1 pale scale patch
- THORAX: scutum's continuous bands : 2. other colors
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 : ?
Legs
- LEG III: colour of tarsomere 2 - Ae : 1. entirely dark ; 4. specled, in the median area at least
- 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 : 1. entirely dark
- LEG III: colour of tibia : 7. specled, in the median area at least
Abdomen
- ABDOMEN: colour of the scales on the tergite : 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 ; 4. with an apical pale band
Distribution
- SAMPLING AREA: North of Mediterranean Sea : Austria ; Belarus ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Croatia ; Czech Republic ; Denmark ; Estonia ; Finland ; Germany ; Hungary ; Latvia ; Lithuania ; Moldova ; Netherlands ; Norway ; Poland ; Romania ; Slovakia ; Spain ; Sweden ; United Kingdom
- SAMPLING AREA: East of Mediterranean Sea : Turkey
- SAMPLING AREA: South of Mediterranean Sea : None