Image of Armigeres
Description:
An Armigeres subalbatus mosquito of the Nagasaki colony was depicted in this 2005 photograph, as she was ingesting a blood meal after having lighted on a human finger. Note the pooling of the blood inside the mosquitos abdomen as it fills its stomach. The blood was being suctioned through the insects proboscis, which is its straw-like mouth that is used to penetrate the hosts skin much like a syringe.
Created: 2005
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Hexapoda (hexapods)
- Insecta (insects)
- Pterygota (winged insects)
- Neoptera (neopteran)
- Endopterygota (endopterygotes)
- Diptera (flies)
- Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)
- Culicidae (mosquitoes)
- Armigeres
- Armigeres subalbatus
- Panarthropoda
This image is not featured in any collections.
Source Information
- license
- cc-publicdomain
- photographer
- James Gathany
- provider
- Public Health Image Library
- original
- original media file
- visit source
- partner site
- Public Health Image Library
- ID
