Ochlerotatus sticticus

Ochlerotatus sticticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Subfamily: Culicinae
Genus: Ochlerotatus
Species: O. sticticus
Binomial name
Ochlerotatus sticticus
(Meigen, 1838)

Ochlerotatus sticticus (synonym Aedes sticticus) is an uncommon mosquito, although the species can be abundant along river floodlands. It has been known to be responsible for human bites. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite.

Distribution

Ochlerotatus sticticus has a very patchy but wide distribution in temperate parts of Europe, Asia and North America. It has an episodic and patchy distribution in Iowa and Wisconsin.

Life cycle

Not a huge amount is known of its life cycle. It is believed that they overwinter in the egg stage.[1]

References

  1. ↑ P.S. Cranston, C.D. Ramsdale, K.R. Snow & G.B. White (1987). Adults, Larvae, and Pupae of British Mosquitoes (Culicidae) A Key. Freshwater Biological Association. pp. 152 pp. ISBN 0-900386-46-0.

Reinert, J.F.; Harbach, R.E.; Kitching, I.A.N.J (2004). "Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142 (3): 289–368. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00144.x. 

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