Aedes cretinus (F)
Aedes cretinus Edwards, 1921
Type-loc: Greece
Misidentification is possible with Aedes albopictus around Cyprus, Georgia, Greece Lebanon and Turkey, but the presence of a pale scale patch on metameron is diagnostic.
Aedes cretinus (F)
Aedes cretinus (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 : 1. scale patch present
- THORAX: Postprocoxal area's ornamentation : ?
- 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 : 2. Aedes cretinus
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 : ?
Legs
- LEG III: Length of the basal ring of tarsomere 2 : non décrit
- 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 : 1. with an even widh ; 2. medianly thinned
- ABDOMEN: Ornamentation of tergite IV : 4. only a basal pale band
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band ; 7. with lateral pale patches