Aedes albopictus (F)
Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894)
Type-loc: India
Misidentification is possible with Aedes cretinus around Cyprus, Georgia, Greece Lebanon and Turkey, but the absence of a pale scale patch on metameron is diagnostic.
This is an invasive species!
Aedes albopictus (F)
Aedes albopictus (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 : 5. white and dark
- THORAX: Scutum's ornamentation : 2. with continuous bands
- THORAX: Metameron's ornamentation : 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: Postprocoxal area's ornamentation : 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: Prealar area's ornamentation - Ae : 2. with at most 1 or 2 pale scales
- THORAX: Shape of the longitudinal lines : 1. straight lines
- THORAX: Scutum's continuous bands : 1. dark with pale bands
- THORAX: Aedes albopictus or Aedes cretinus : 1. Aedes albopictus
Wings
- WING: General ornamentation of the wing : 1. entirely dark
- 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 : 1. shorter than 3 mm ; 2. between 3 - 3,5 mm ; 3. between 3,6 - 4 mm
Legs
- LEG III: Length of the basal ring of tarsomere 2 : 1. < half of the tarsomere length
- LEG I: Tarsal claw's shape : ?
- 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 : 2. white at the base
- LEG III: Colour of tarsomere 5 : 3. entirely white
- LEG III: Colour of tibia : 1. entirely dark
Abdomen
- ABDOMEN: Colour of the scales on the tergite : 4. with silvery white and dark scales
- ABDOMEN: Shape of the pale basal band of tergite IV : 2. medianly thinned ; 3. medianly broken
- ABDOMEN: Ornamentation of tergite IV : 5. a thin basal pale band
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band ; 7. with lateral pale patches
Distribution
- SAMPLING AREA: West of Western Palaearctic Region : Albania ; Austria ; Balearic Islands ; Belgium ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Bulgaria ; Corsica ; Croatia ; Czech Republic ; France ; Germany ; Greece ; Italy ; Macedonia ; Malta ; Montenegro ; Netherlands ; Portugal ; Romania ; Sardinia ; Serbia ; Sicily ; Slovakia ; Slovenia ; Spain ; Switzerland ; United Kingdom
- SAMPLING AREA: East of Western Palaearctic Region : Armenia ; Georgia ; Israel ; Jordan ; Lebanon ; Palestine ; Russia - Southwestern ; Syria ; Turkey
- SAMPLING AREA: South of Western Palaearctic Region : Algeria ; Morocco ; Tunisia