• partially bloodfed

For ID, referred to:

• Thielman & Hunter (2007) A Photographic Key to Adult Female Mosquito Species of Canada (Diptera: Culicidae)
  http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/th_04/th_04.html

• Wood, Dang & Ellis (1979) The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 6: The Mosquitoes of Canada (Diptera: Culicidae)

ID genus, female with:

• short palps (image 6)
• pointed tip of abdomen (image7)
• spiracular setae absent (image 4)

ID species within Aedes (Ochlerotatus):
1a. Tarsomeres banded with pale scales (images 1, 9)……2
2b. Pale-scaled bands present only on base of tarsomeres (images 1, 9)……..9
9b. Pale-scaled bands on hind tarsomeres each about one-third the length of tarsomere (images 1, 9)......11
11b. Hind tarsomeres 1 to 5 with broad, pale-scaled basal bands or hind tarsomeres 1 to 4 with
broad, pale-scaled basal bands and tarsomere 1 with scattered pale scales in addition to basal band or with an additional band at midlength (images 1, 9, 10)…. 13
13b. Abdominal tergites with pale-scaled basal bands or with bands and scattered pale
scales not organized into a median, longitudinal stripe (image 7).… 16
16a. Foreclaw strongly bent and nearly parallel to subbasal tooth, which is about half the length of claw beyond fork (image 11).... Aedes (Ochlerotatus) excrucians