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Given a specimen in good condition, one of the first things to notice is the length of the maxillary palps. Especially in the female, palps as long as the proboscis are characteristic of anopheline mosquitoes. Culicine females have short palps. Anopheline mosquitoes tend to have dappled or spotted wings, while culicine wings tend to be clear.
Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive-ito) [2] is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. [3] Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.
Male (left) and female (center and right) Ae. aegypti E.A. Goeldi, 1905 Aedes aegypti is a 4-to-7-millimetre-long (5 ⁄ 32 to 35 ⁄ 128 in), dark mosquito which can be recognized by white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of its thorax.
The female is a moderate-sized brown to dark brown mosquito, [1] with a single pale prominent broad band on the middle third of its proboscis, and similar bands on its legs. [3] It closely resembles the female of the related Cx. sitiens. The latter species has a narrower band on its proboscis. [1]
An individual mosquito can be heard across 2–5 cm in distance when sound level rises to 22-25 dB. [7] Male and female mosquitoes can also be distinguished by their wingbeat frequencies, which are 700–800 Hz for males and 400–500 Hz for females. [7] As a result, flight sounds are used to determine flight activity and distinguish sex of groups.
E. culicivora chooses blood fed females over non-mosquito prey, male mosquitoes and sugar-fed female mosquitoes, which demonstrates their preference of blood. As of 2015, E. culicivora is one of only two spiders that have been experimentally studied and considered a mosquito specialist, the other being Paracyrba wanlessi .
FILE - This 2006 file photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host.
The subfamily Culicinae is the largest subfamily of Culicidae, a family of Nematocera dipterans.There are 3,046 species of Culicinae mosquitoes, in 108 genera and 11 tribes. . Members of the Culicinae subfamily are small flies with fore wings for flight and hind wings reduced to halteres for balan