Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Culiseta or not ?

Posted by evdb on 24-05-2013 09:02
#1

Hi,

Photograph taken in center of France on 18 may 2013 inside a greenhouse.
Is this male a Culiseta ?
Thanks for help.

evdb.free.fr/images/div/2013/DSS4017.jpg

Edited by evdb on 24-05-2013 19:51

Posted by Tony Irwin on 24-05-2013 18:14
#2

The very tapered abdomen suggests that this is not Culiseta. I think Aedes s.l. is a better guess - possibly a rubbed Aedes (Aedimorphus) vexans.

Edited by Tony Irwin on 24-05-2013 18:15

Posted by evdb on 24-05-2013 18:51
#3

Thanks a lot Tony :)