Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

 Photogallery: 

Synonyms: Psorophora ctites Dyar
                                         (Dyar 1922; Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit 2001)

[1902 Giles]

1922 Dyar

1940 Fisk & LeVan
1943 Eads
1943 McGregor & Eads
1943 Ross
1944 Randolf & O'Neill
1949 McCleskey

1950 Buxton
1951 Eads Menzies Ogden
1952 Buxton & Breland
[1955 Carpenter & LeCasse]
1956 Harmston et al. in Ward
         1964
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smittle Philips

1960 Eads Foyle Peel
[1963 Dodge]
[1965 Wiseman]

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
[1983 Stone et al.]

[1997 Arnett]

2001 Walter Reed
         Biosystematics Unit
2005 Bradford et al.
2005 Darsie & Ward

notes:

-tolerant of desiccation (Buxton & Breland 1952)

-breeds in early spring through fall (McGregor & Eads 1943)