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Posted: 10 Sep 2017

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Malaria mosquito (Anapheles quadrimaculatus)

Malaria mosquito (Anapheles quadrimaculatus)

Erhard Bernstein, micritter, aNNa schramm and 2 other people have particularly liked this photo

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 Ronald Losure
Ronald Losure club
I think it may be a crane fly, genus Limonia.
6 years ago.
 Doerthe
Doerthe club
Thanks, Ron. In my Simon & Schuster insect guide I just found that this is a malaria mosquito. The range is southern Canada & Great Lakes region, throughout the eastern states down to Texas. I had no knowledge of malaria has caused many deaths in north America in the 1800s and during the building of the Erie Canal.
6 years ago.
 micritter
micritter
An excellent macro of a very delicate insect. I think Ronald is right (at least it doesn't look to me to be a female anopheles mosquito, but then I am often wrong).
6 years ago.
Doerthe club has replied to micritter
I will name it anything the viewer think this is. The photo I referenced for Ron suggestion is not what this looks like, nor the description, but, I don't know much about insects, either.
6 years ago.

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