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Black Mosquito with feathered legs
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Posted on 31-08-2008 08:15
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Hello,

Somebody posted this picture on our French forum:
farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2801870870_1062d310aa.jpg

The picture was taken in French Guyana.
Nobody could propose an identification.
Does this ring a bell?
Edited by pierred on 31-08-2008 08:16
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It's a female Sabethes. The "paddles"on the mid leg are characteristic.
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Tony,
Thanks, I'll will communicate the id.
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wow!! Magnifique culicid!!!Shock
 
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Jorge,

I also think it was a wonderful species.
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It's Sabethes cyaneus. I took a foto in Venezuela of this kind. Seeabove.Greetings André
Andre Megroz attached the following image:


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Hi Andre. I agree that both photos show Sabethes, but yours has feathering on the front legs too, the mid leg "paddles" and the hind tarsi are a different shape and all the tarsi are a different colour. Which one of them, if either, is cyaneus I don't know - there are about 40 species altogether!
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Hi Toni, Sabethes cyaneus have only mid-leg-paddles (see literature), male and female. So it seems to me, that yours is a S. cyaneus. "My" Sabethes has paddles also on the front legs, so it should be be an other sp. By the way, both fotos, yours an mine anr from the north of southamerica (Guyana und Venezuela).
 
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