Generic Adult Characters:

  • Mosquito generic character
  • 1. Distinctly ornamented, most with narrow stripes of white, silver, or sometimes gold scales
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  • Mosquito generic character
  • 2. Postspiracular setae absent
  
  • Mosquito generic character
  • 3. Tarsomere 1 of the fore- and midlegs (Ta-I1, -II1) longer than the four distal tarsomeres (Ta-I2-5, -II2-5) combined
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  • Mosquito generic character
  • 4. Tarsomere 4 of the fore- and midlegs shorter than tarsomere 5 (slightly longer than broad) (Ta-I4, -II4.)