Aedes sollicitans
| Aedes sollicitans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Aedes |
| Species: | A. sollicitans
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| Binomial name | |
| Aedes sollicitans (Walker, 1856)
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Aedes sollicitans, the eastern saltmarsh mosquito (also known as Ochlerotatus sollicitans), is a species of
Description
Aedes sollicitans has a conspicuous band of white scales around the central area of the
Similar Species
A. sollicitans resembles Aedes taeniorhynchus but the two species can be distinguished at the larval and adult stages. Larval A. sollicitans have longer breathing tubes, have scale patches with pointed tips, and larger spines that line the edges of each scale patch. Adult A. sollicitans are golden brown while adult Aedes taeniorhychus are black and smaller in size.[2]
Habitat
A. sollicitans tends to stay within 5 miles of the coast on average all the range can be greater dependent upon a number of factors such as wind speed and duration.
Food Resources
It tends to feed most actively at twilight but is an opportunistic feeder which will feed a host species that enters its area in daytime. The female requires one blood meal for each egg batch with the primary host species being mammals, and birds as a secondary host.
Oviposition
The female Aedes sollicitans lays her eggs on the dried out substrate of
In the south the peak amount of adults occurs in the spring and fall, and in the northern portion of its range peak adult population occurs in the summer. The last batches of eggs laid in the fall remain in diapause until the spring.[3]
References
- ^ "University of Florida Aedes sollicitans". Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2010-07-18.
- JSTOR 4576745.
- ^ O'Meara, G. F. 1992. The eastern saltmarsh mosquito Aedes sollicitans. Wing Beats, Vol. 3(4):5.