Aedes surcoufi (F)
Aedes surcoufi (Theobald, 1912)
Type-loc: France
Tarsi with basal pale rings, tarsal claw spines not parallel. Female and male are very difficult to differentiate from Aedes annulipes and Aedes euedes.
Aedes surcoufi (F)
Aedes surcoufi (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 : 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: 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: length of the basal ring of tarsomere 2 : 1. < 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
- ABDOMEN: ornamentation of tergite IV : 10. pale basal band, dark sprinkled area
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band