- Aedes rusticus
Taxobox
name = "Aedes rusticus"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum =Hexapoda
classis =Insect a
subclassis =Pterygota
infraclassis =Neoptera
superordo =Endopterygota |
ordo = Diptera
subordo =Nematocera
infraordo =Culicomorpha
superfamilia =Culicoidea
familia =Culicidae
subfamilia =Culicinae
genus = "Aedes "
subgenus = "Ochlerotatus "
species = "A. rusticus"
binomial = "Aedes (Ochlerotatus) rusticus"
binomial_authority = (Rossi, 1790)
synonyms = "Aedes diversus" Theobald 1901"Aedes rusticus", it is a relatively common European
mosquito , that is often responsible for human bites from May to August. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite.Distribution
"Aedes rusticus" has a patchy distribution, from Britain (mainly southern),
Belgium ,Denmark ,Poland ,Russia , TheBalkans and as far asAsia Minor .Life Cycle
Following a mammal blood meal to provide sufficient
protein to produce eggs, females will lay their egg rafts in spring or summer in dried-up pools, they will hatch when the pools flood later in the year. They will overwinter in the 4th larval stage, pupation and adult emergence take place the following spring. [cite book|author=P.S. Cranston, C.D. Ramsdale, K.R. Snow & G.B. White|year=1987|title=Adults, Larvae, and Pupae of British Mosquitoes (Culicidae) A Key|pages=152 pp|publisher=Freshwater Biological Association|isbn=0 900386 46 0]References
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