Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Culex pipiens?

Posted by Marcello on 30-08-2012 19:23
#1

Hello,

found this Culex sp. full of blood, can someone help me with the sp. identification?

29.06.2012 - Padua - Northeast Italy

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Thanks in advance.

Marcello

Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-08-2012 22:01
#2

Looks like a Culex, OK, but without a specimen, I wouldn't want to take it further. :|

Posted by Marcello on 30-08-2012 23:16
#3

I thought it was more simple, because here we have just the C. pipiens and the Aedes albopictus (the most commons in Northeast Italy).

Thanks anyway :)

Marcello

Tony Irwin wrote:
Looks like a Culex, OK, but without a specimen, I wouldn't want to take it further. :|

Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-08-2012 22:11
#4

In Slovenia, there are 5 species of Culex, and many other mosquitoes in other genera. I think there will be at least that many in NE Italy.

Posted by Marcello on 31-08-2012 22:19
#5

So, we have different mosquitos in North Italy, Central Italy and Sud Italy, for example the Aedes albopictus is only in the NE Italy and some Sicily city (Sud Italy).

Tony Irwin wrote:
In Slovenia, there are 5 species of Culex, and many other mosquitoes in other genera. I think there will be at least that many in NE Italy.