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2 Records
Description
This is one of four species that have a light-colored thorax with a black middorsal stripe and dark, unbanded legs. The Floodwater Mosquito is the only one of those four species that has complete pale bands on the base of each abdominal segment. (J. Emm, pers. comm.)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Aedes |
| Subgenus: | Ochlerotatus |
| Species: | A. sticticus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aedes sticticus (Meigen, 1838)
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Aedes sticticus is an uncommon mosquito, although the species can be abundant along river floodlands.[1] It has been known to be responsible for human bites. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite.
Distribution
[edit]Aedes sticticus has a very patchy but wide distribution in temperate parts of Europe, Asia and North America. It has an episodic and patchy distribution in Iowa and Wisconsin.
Life cycle
[edit]Not a huge amount is known of its life cycle. It is believed that they overwinter in the egg stage.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Helmersson, Erik. "Molecular identification of mosquito species" (PDF).
- ^ P.S. Cranston; C.D. Ramsdale; K.R. Snow; G.B. White (1987). Adults, Larvae, and Pupae of British Mosquitoes (Culicidae) A Key. Freshwater Biological Association. pp. 152 pp. ISBN 0-900386-46-0.
Further reading
[edit]Reinert, J.F.; Harbach, R.E.; Kitching, I.A.N.J (2004). "Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142 (3): 289–368. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00144.x.
External links
[edit]- Aedes sticticus Iowa-Mosquito.net Iowa State University Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
- Ochlerotatus sticticus Taxonconcept Knowledge Base University of Wisconsin
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