A revision of the mosquitos of the Palaearctic region / by F.W. Edwards.

  • Edwards, F. W. (Frederick Wallace), 1888-1940.
Date:
1921
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Credit: A revision of the mosquitos of the Palaearctic region / by F.W. Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2(S(-) Prt’-(i/(ir, a cluiu]) situated on the ])i'e-alar ])r()ininenre ; always ])resciit, but variable in numlH'r. Slcnu>[)lciirtd. the row wliieh is lu'arly always i)resent, (‘xtending vertically ac'i'oss the nn‘se|)isternuin and inesostenuini, almost in a line with the row on the I'ig. 1, Side view of thorax of (A) TheohahUa aumihita and (I?) Aedes l^enicidatits, to show arrangement of pleural bristles. (Seales omitted.) Bristles; jiroiujtal; p.s., jirosternal ; proepimeral ; s/>., sjiiracnlar • p. sp.. post-sjiiraeidar; p.a., pre-alar; v. iii.r., u])])er mc.se])imcral ; l.iii.e., lower me.sepimeral, si. p., sternopleural. middle eo.xtie. Mcscpimeral, two groups whose position is indicated by the name ; the iippcy tncscpiineral bristles form a distinct clumj) or tuft which is alwavs jn'esent ; the loivcr mcscpimeral are \'ariable. in number and have been used to distinguish the genera Culcx anti Lutzia.