A handbook of the gnats or mosquitoes : giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidæ, together with descriptions of all species noticed up to the present date / by Geo. M. Giles.

  • George Michael James Giles
Date:
1902
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A handbook of the gnats or mosquitoes : giving the anatomy and life history of the Culicidæ, together with descriptions of all species noticed up to the present date / by Geo. M. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    66. CULEX PARVUS, Macquart (1834). [Nou. Suit, a Buff. Hist. Nat. d. Ins. Dipt. tom. i (1834).] Wings unspotted ; tarsi with white rings ; for the rest like Culex pipiens. Length.—2 lines. Habitat.—France. Note.—Possibly the same as the preceding. 67. CULEX NICAENSIS, Leach (Zool. Journ. ii. 292, 2, Leach). Head and thorax dark brown. Legs cinereous, with tarsi grey ringed. Abdomen dark brown, all the segments bordered behind with cinereous. Length.—10 mm. Habitat.—Nice ; common. Note.—Not noticed by Ficalbi, or any recent observer ; the type apparently not existing. 68. CULEX ANNULITARSIS, Macquart (“ D. E.” i, p. 8). = C. fasciatus, Fabricius (?). Fuscous ; tibse white ringed ; first hind tarsal joints whitish, with fuscous rings. Length.— 2 lines ( ? ). Legs brown ; femora with whitish bases, hind tibiae with a large white ring at the tip ; first hind tarsal joints whitish, with a small brown ring. Habitat.—Mauritius. 69. CULEX BIPUNCTATUS, Bob. Desvoidy. (Mem. Soc. d’Hist. Nat. de Paris, t. iii (1827), Rob. Desvoidy; Suit. 4 Buff. i, 35, 11, Macquart.) Thorax, with dorsum dark red and the pleurae lighter, with two silvery spots in front. Femora pale yellow ; knee yellowish, tarsi ringed brown and yellow. Dorsum of abdomen yellow, with a median blackish line. Length.—4 lines. Habitat.—France. Note.—The type is not traceable, nor has the species been observed since it was described. .Group VII.—Culices with Unbanded Tarsi. This is a large group of nearly seventy species, which are extremely difficult to tabulate, on account of the close resem¬ blance of many of the forms included. The most convenient basis of tabulation appears to be the ornamentation of the abdomen, and in view of the large num-