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 Black Mosquito with feathered legs
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| pierred |
Posted on 31-08-2008 08:15
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 Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1455 Joined: 21.04.05 |
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 Pierre Duhem |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 31-08-2008 14:36
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7286 Joined: 19.11.04 |
It's a female Sabethes. The "paddles"on the mid leg are characteristic.
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| pierred |
Posted on 31-08-2008 20:24
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1455 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Tony, Thanks, I'll will communicate the id. Pierre Duhem |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 31-08-2008 20:28
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
wow!! Magnifique culicid!!! |
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| pierred |
Posted on 31-08-2008 20:31
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Member Location: Paris (France) Posts: 1455 Joined: 21.04.05 |
Jorge, I also think it was a wonderful species. Pierre Duhem |
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| Andre Megroz |
Posted on 13-08-2009 14:14
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Member Location: Switzerland Posts: 526 Joined: 08.08.09 |
It's Sabethes cyaneus. I took a foto in Venezuela of this kind. Seeabove.Greetings André
Andre Megroz attached the following image:  [56.99Kb] |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 13-08-2009 20:52
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7286 Joined: 19.11.04 |
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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| Andre Megroz |
Posted on 14-08-2009 10:12
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Member Location: Switzerland Posts: 526 Joined: 08.08.09 |
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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