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Aedes

Azari-Hamidian, Shahyad;Harbach, Ralf E.

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Also known as Aëdes

Aedes (also known as the tiger mosquito or colloquially "dengue mosquito") is a genus of mosquitoes originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but now found on all continents except Antarctica. Some species have been spread by human activity: Aedes albopictus, a particularly invasive species, was spread to the Americas, including the United States, in the 1980s, by the used-tire trade.

Species

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GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilyCulicidae
Habitatmarine
Observations18,299
Observations recorded1,207,127

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
9,648
With media
143
Family
Culicidae
Collections
FCB-UANL, INDRE-SSA
Recorded in
Mexico

Research

26,812 papers

via PubMed

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Aedini
Image
Aedes aegypti biting human.jpg
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Template:Taxonomy/Aedes
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Aedes
Commons category
Aedes
topic's main category
Category:Aedes
taxonomic type
Aedes aegypti
taxon common name
Iergermustik
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • Systematics and phylogeny
  • Characteristics
  • As disease vectors
  • Sequencing
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Aedes (also known as the tiger mosquito or colloquially "dengue mosquito") is a genus of mosquitoes originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but now found on all continents except Antarctica. Some species have been spread by human activity: Aedes albopictus, a particularly invasive species, was spread to the Americas, including the United States, in the 1980s, by the used-tire trade.

It was first described and named by German entomologist Johann Wilhelm Meigen in 1818; the generic name comes from Ancient Greek (), meaning 'unpleasant' or 'odious'. The type species for Aedes is Aedes cinereus.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aedes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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