Diptera

(Mosquitoes & Flies)

 Photogallery: 

Synonyms:  Aedes bimaculatus (Coquillett)
                                          (Breland 1956; Carpenter & LaCasse 1955; Darsie & Ward; Dodger 1963; Dyar 1922; Eads & Strom
                                            1957; Hill Smith Philips 1958; McGregor & Eads 1943; Randolf & O'Neill 1944; Ross 1943; Stone
                                            et al. 1983; Wiseman 1965)
                   Aedes rozeboomi
                   Culex bimaculatus Coquillett
                                           (Coquillett 1902g, 1903)

1902g Coquillett
1903 Coquillett

1922 Dyar

1943 McGregor & Eads
1943 Ross
1944 Randolf & O'Neill

[1955 Carpenter & LaCasse]
[1956 Breland]
1957 Eads & Strom
1958 Hill Smith Philips

[1963 Dodger]
[1965 Wiseman]

[1981 Darsie & Ward]
[1985 Stone et al.]

[2001 TMCA]
2005 Darsie & Ward

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

notes:

-New Species as Culex bimaculatus (Coquillett 1902g)

-larvae occur in temporary waters and roadside ditches (Randolf & O'Neil 1944)

-breeds in spring and summer (McGregor & Eads 1943)

-many O. bimaculatus of the SE US have long been misidentified and are really O. fulvus pallens (Ross 1943)