Aedes aegypti
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Aedes aegypti – sometimes called the Egyptian mosquito, dengue mosquito, or yellow fever mosquito – is a mosquito that spreads diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever, and chikungunya. The mosquit
Aedes aegypti
Aedes aegypti larva
Male (left) and female (center and right) Ae. aegypti E.A. Goeldi, 1905
Ae. aegypti feeding on a human
Aedes
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Aedes 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,
Aedes aegypti
…of the dipteran family Culicidae and to the genus Aedes and subgenus Stegomyia. According to one recent analysis, the subgenus Stegomyia of the genus Aedes should be raised to the level of genus. The proposed name change has been ignored by most scientists; at least one scientific journal, the Journal of…
Aedes aegypti feeding
Aedes (Stegomyia) pia, described in 2013.