Culex pipiens
Stickmygga
HemmetTrädgårdenInsekter
Stickmyggan (Culex pipiens) sticker i skymningen sommartid. Så känner du igen den, undviker bett och håller den borta från hem och trädgård.
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🐛AI-illustration kommerAntique scientific engraving plate, aged parchment background, sepia and warm brown ink, fine cross-hatching, 19th-century natural-history lithograph style, thin double-line border frame. Portrait orientation, muted sepia palette, no modern color.
Top-left small text "Insecta. Diptera."; top-right "Tab. XL." Centered title block: large serif capitals "CULEX PIPIENS", below it smaller spaced capitals "STICKMYGGA", below that "Naturlig storlek." in italic.
**Fig. 1** — a slender female mosquito in profile with long legs, narrow scaled wings and a straight piercing proboscis; caption "Fig. 1. Hona, i profil. Naturlig storlek."
Below Fig. 1, a neat grid of magnified anatomical detail figures, each drawn accurately and given its exact Swedish caption underneath:
**Fig. 2** — the head with its piercing proboscis, magnified; caption "Fig. 2. Huvud med sugsnabel, förstorat."
**Fig. 3** — an antenna; caption "Fig. 3. Antenn."
**Fig. 4** — a scaled wing; caption "Fig. 4. Vinge."
**Fig. 5** — a single long leg; caption "Fig. 5. Ben."
**Fig. 6** — the aquatic larva hanging just under the water surface; caption "Fig. 6. Larv, hängande under vattenytan."
**Fig. 7** — the comma-shaped pupa; caption "Fig. 7. Puppa."
A horizontal scale bar labeled "2 mm". At the very bottom, a thin index legend row repeating the short Swedish captions for Fig. 1 through Fig. 7.
Render ALL on-plate text exactly as written above, in Swedish and Latin, with clean serif lettering and no spelling changes. Hand-engraved etching look with fine line hatching, no photographic shading and no color washes.
