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IDENTIFICATION AND DESCRIPTIONS OF AEDES EGGS FROM CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA (DIPTERA: CULICIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Charles M. Myers
Affiliation:
California State Department of Public Health, Bureau of Vector Control, Fresno, Californa

Abstract

A key and measurements are presented for the eggs of 23 species of Aedes. Twenty species from California and Nevada are illustrated, and eleven previously undescribed eggs are described.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1967

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