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Aedes
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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.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyCulicidae
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Research
26,812 papers- Aedes aegypti.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2019
- Aedes albopictus in the Americas.Annual review of entomology · 1991
- Aedes albopictus (Asian Tiger Mosquito).Trends in parasitology · 2020
- The effect of temperature on dengue virus transmission by Aedes mosquitoes.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
- Understanding the role of trehalose in interactions between Wolbachia and Aedes aegypti.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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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.