Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Black Mosquito with feathered legs
Posted by pierred on 31-08-2008 08:15
#1
Hello,
Somebody posted this picture on our French forum:
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
Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-08-2008 14:36
#2
It's a female
Sabethes. The "paddles"on the mid leg are characteristic.
Posted by pierred on 31-08-2008 20:24
#3
Tony,
Thanks, I'll will communicate the id.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 31-08-2008 20:28
#4
wow!! Magnifique culicid!!!:o
Posted by pierred on 31-08-2008 20:31
#5
Jorge,
I also think it was a wonderful species.
Posted by Andre Megroz on 13-08-2009 14:14
#6
It's Sabethes cyaneus. I took a foto in Venezuela of this kind. Seeabove.Greetings André
Posted by Tony Irwin on 13-08-2009 20:52
#7
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!
Posted by Andre Megroz on 14-08-2009 10:12
#8
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).