Looking similar to a female Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti), I thought I was doomed. But no, if you look very closely at the proboscis, there is a pale stripe, mostly buried deep into my wrist, that marks it as an Rampamyia notoscriptus. It feeds on humans in the daytime. Go for it you little sucker. Como NSW Australia, December 2009.
Photographed by Macroscopic Solutions using diffusers on www.macroscopicsolutions.comIdentificationLarvae:- antennal seta 1-A multiple, attached near the middle of the shaft- head hairs 5 and 6 multibranched- comb scale rounded apically- siphon with an even row of single setae attached distally to pecten teeth- saddle complete- anal segment seta 1 as long as or longer than saddleAdult Female:- proboscis long and weakly recurved- abdominal terga dark brown with yellowish-white basal bands widening lateraly to width of the segment- hindtarsomeres intermixed with light and dark scales- costa, subcosta, and radius intermixed with light and drk scales