Union County Mosquito Species List

Below is a list of mosquito species sampled in New Jersey. Those with an "X" in front of the species name indicates a presence in Union County.   Aedes aegypti is found but does not overwinter in New Jersey. Links lead to species accounts. Species list updated 19 March 2001.

Genus Aedes (Aedes) Meigen
X 1. 

Aedes abserratus (Felt and Young)
X 2. 

Aedes albopictus (Skuse) - see also second account and Morph Comparisons with other Aedes
3. 

Aedes atlanticus Dyar and Knab

4.

Aedes atropalpus (Coquillett) - see also second account and Morph Comparisons with other Aedes
5.

Aedes aurifer (Coquillett)

X 6.

Aedes canadensis canadensis (Theobald)

7.

Aedes cantator (Coquillet)

8.

Aedes cinereus Meigen

9.

Aedes communis (De Geer)

10.

Aedes dorsalis (Meigen)

11.

Aedes dupreei (Coquillet)

X 12.

Aedes excrucians (Walker)

13.

Aedes fitchii (Felt and Young)

14.

Aedes flavescens (Miller)

X 15.

Aedes grossbecki Dyar and Knab

16.

Aedes hendersoni Cockerell

17.

Aedes implicatus Vockeroth

18.

Aedes infirmatus Dyar and Knab

19.

Aedes intrudens Dyar

20.

Aedes japonicus - 1998. See also  Morph Comparisons with other Aedes/Aedes

21.

Aedes mitchellae (Dyar)

22.

Aedes provocans (Walker)

23.

Aedes punctor (Kirby)

X 24.

Aedes sollicitans (Walker)

25.

Aedes spencerii spencerii (Theobald)

26.

Aedes sticticus (Meigen)

27.

Aedes stimulans (Walker)

28.

Aedes taeniorhynchus (Say)

29.

Aedes thibaulti Dyar and Knab - see also second account
X 30.

Aedes triseriatus (Say) - see also second account and Morph Comparisons with other Aedes/Aedes
31.

Aedes trivittatus (Coquillet)

X 32.

Aedes vexans (Anopheles MergenMeigen) - see also second account

Genus Anopheles Meigen
33.

Anopheles atropos Dyar and Knab

34.

Anopheles barberi Couillett

35.

Anopheles bradleyi King

36.

Anopheles crucians Weidemann

37.

Anopheles earlei Vargas

X 38.

Anopheles punctipennis (Say)

X 39.

Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say

40.

Anopheles walkeri Theobald

Genus Culex Linnaeus
41.

Culex erraticus (Dyar and Knab) - see also second account
X 42.

Culex pipiens Linnaeus - see also second account
X 43.

Culex restuans Theobald

44.

Culex salinarius Coquillett - see also second account
45.

Culex tarsalis Coquillett - see also second account
X 46.

Culex territans Walker

Genus Culiseta Felt
47.

Culiseta inornata (Williston)

48.

Culiseta melanura (Coquillett)

49.

Culiseta minnesotae Barr

50.

Culiseta morsitans (Theobald)

Genus Coquillettidia Dyar
51.

Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker)

Genus Orthopodomyia Theobald
52.

Orthopodomyia alba Baker

X 53.

Orthopodomyia signifera (Coquillett)

Genus Psorophora Robineau-Desvoidy
54.

Psorophora ciliata (Fabricius)

X 55.

Psorophora columbiae (Dyar and Knab)

56.

Psorophora cyanescens (Coquillett)

57.

Psorophora discolor (Coquillett)

X 58.

Psorophora ferox (von Humboldt)

59.

Psorophora howardii Coquillett

60.

Psorophora mathesoni Belkin and Heinemann

Genus Toxorhynchites Theobald
61.

Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis (Dyar and Knab)

Genus Uranotaenia Lynch- Arribalzaga
X 62.

Uranotaenia sapphirina (Osten Sacken)

Genus Wyeomyia Theobald
63.

Wyeomyia smithii (Coquillett)

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