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CuLEX (CuLEx) bahamensis Dyar and Knab 



Culex bahamensis Dyar and Knab, 1906, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 14:210. 



ADULT FEMALE. — Medium-sized species. Head: Proboscis dark scaled, with 

 a rather broad white band medially; palpi short, dark, pale scaled at tips. Occi- 

 put clothed dorsally with pale-gold lanceolate scales and dark erect forked 

 scales; clothed laterally with broad white scales. Thorax: Integument of scutum 

 brown; scutal scales narrow, curved, golden-brown to brown. Pleura with a few 

 broad white scales, particularly on sternopleura. Abdomen: Tergites dark- 

 brown scaled, each with a basal band of white scales; sternites predominantly 

 pale scaled. Legs: Each leg dark scaled except for the following markings: 

 Pale inner surface of femur; white line on inner side of tibia and often on inner 

 side of first tarsal segment; narrow white ring at tip of tibia; a very narrow 

 basal and apical white ring on each segment of tarsus (apical rings may be 

 absent on tarsi of fore and middle legs). Wing: Scales narrow, dark. 



ADULT MALE. — Coloration similar to that of female. TERminALIA (Fig. 

 131 C). Lobes of ninth tergite (IXT-L) only slightly raised, each bearing 



Fig. 131. Culex bahamensis Dyar and Knab. A, Hind tarsus. B, palp 

 and proboscis of female. C, Male terminalia. 



