Aedes nigrocanus (F)
Aedes nigrocanus (Meigen, 1838)
Type-loc: Turkey
This species was described by Martini in 1927 from only one male sample, collected in Turkey, on the train. Holotype remains in Natural History Museum London, originality of this species is proven by C. John Lane in 1992.
Difficult to differentiate from Aedes pulchritarsis.
Aedes nigrocanus (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 : 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 : 3. white at the base and apex
- 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 : 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