Aedes mercurator (F)
Aedes mercurator Dyar, 1920
Type-loc: Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada
Aedes mercurator (F)
Aedes mercurator (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 : 1. entirely dark
Thorax
- THORAX: Prespiracular and postspiracular setae : 3. prespiracular setae absent postspiracular setae present - Aedes
- THORAX: Colour of the scutum scales : 4. yellow and dark
- THORAX: Scutum's ornamentation : 2. with continuous bands ; 4. with a large anterior patch
- THORAX: Metameron's ornamentation : 1. scale patch present ; 2. scale patch absent
- THORAX: Postprocoxal area's ornamentation : 1. scale patch present
- THORAX: Prealar area's ornamentation - Ae : 3. with 1 pale scale patch
- THORAX: Scutum's continuous bands : 2. other colors
Wings
- WING: General ornamentation of the wing : 1. entirely dark ; 3. with a thin line of pale scales on the costal vein base
- 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 : 2. between 3 - 3,5 mm ; 3. between 3,6 - 4 mm ; 4. between 4,1 - 4,5 mm ; 5. between 4,6 - 5 mm ; 6. longer than 5 mm
Legs
- LEG III: Length of the basal ring of tarsomere 2 : 2. >= 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 : 2. white at the base ; 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 : 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 : 3. a basal pale band and lateral patches ; 4. only a basal pale band
- ABDOMEN: Ornametation of tergite III : 2. with a basal pale band