The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

CULICIDAE

Aedes vexans (Meigen)

Inland Floodwater Mosquito


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Distribution Citations

1922 Dyar

1943 McGregor & Eads
1944 Randolf & O'Neill
1948b Breland
1949 McCleskey

1950 Buxton
1950 Rueger & Druce
1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]

1952 Buxton & Breland
1956 Harmstrom et al.
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

 

1960 Eads Foyle Peel
[1963 Dodge]
1964 Ward
1965 Eddleman
[1965 Wiseman]
1968 Easton Price Graham

1970 Sublette & Sublette
1973 Hayes et al.

[1981 Darsie & Ward]

2005 Bradfort et al.
2005 Darsie & Ward

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-breeds year round (McGregor & Eads 1943; Randolf & O'Neill 1944)

-a visciously-biting pest (Randolf & O'Neill 1944)

-resistant to desiccation (Buxton & Breland 1952); larvae are drought resistant (Bick & Penn 1947 in Breland 1947)

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                          2010

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