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Terminal segment of <i>Toxorhynchites</i>. Overlay with arrow to lateral plate labeled 'lateral plate'; also labeled 'Toxorhynchites'

If comb scales are absent and if a heavily sclerotized lateral plate bearing long spinulose hairs is present on the eighth abdominal segment, the genus is Toxorhynchites.

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