Aedes rusticus

{{Short description|Species of mosquito}} {{Speciesbox | image = Aedes rusticus, Sontley, North Wales, May 2015 - Flickr - janetgraham84.jpg | image_caption = ''Aedes rusticus'' North Wales | genus = Aedes | parent = Aedes (Rusticoidus) | species = rusticus | authority = (Rossi, 1790) | synonyms = ''Aedes diversus'' <small>Theobald 1901</small> ''Ochlerotatus rusticus'' <small>(Rossi, 1790)</small> }}

'''''Aedes rusticus''''' is a relatively common European mosquito, that is often responsible for human bites from May to August. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite.

==Distribution== ''Aedes rusticus'' has a patchy distribution, from Britain (mainly southern), Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Russia, The Balkans and as far as Asia Minor.

==Life cycle== Following a mammal blood meal to provide sufficient protein to produce eggs, females will lay their egg rafts in spring or summer in dried-up pools, they will hatch when the pools flood later in the year. They will overwinter in the 4th larval stage, pupation and adult emergence take place the following spring.<ref>{{cite book|author1=P.S. Cranston |author2=C.D. Ramsdale |author3=K.R. Snow |author4=G.B. White |year=1987|title=Adults, Larvae, and Pupae of British Mosquitoes (Culicidae) A Key|pages=152 pp|publisher=Freshwater Biological Association|isbn=0-900386-46-0}}</ref>

<gallery> Aedes rusticus, Sontley, North Wales, May 2015 2 - Flickr - janetgraham84.jpg |Dorsum </gallery>

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rusticus Category:Flies of Asia Category:Flies of Europe Category:Insects described in 1790 Category:Taxa named by Pietro Rossi