List of Aedes species
The mosquito genus Aedes includes the following species. Where known, the listings indicate whether the species bites humans, and any pathogens that the species is known to carry.
Species[]
- Aedes australis
- - northwest coast mosquito
- Bites humans
- Aedes aegypti - yellow fever mosquito
- Bites humans, carries chikungunya, dengue fever, heartworm, Murray Valley encephalitis, Ross River virus, West Nile virus, Yellow Fever, Zika virus
- Aedes africanus
- Aedes albolineatus
- Aedes alboniveus
- Aedes albopictus - Asian tiger mosquito
- Bites humans, carries Cache Valley virus, chikungunya, dengue fever, Eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile virus, Yellow Fever, Zika virus
- Aedes albolineatus
- Aedes alboscutellatus
- [2]
- Aedes atlanticus
- Carries Keystone virus, West Nile virus
- also spelled Aedes atropalpos
- Bites humans, carries La Crosse virus, Plasmodium gallinaceum, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus
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- Bites humans
- Aedes bahamensis
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- Bites humans
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- Bites humans
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- Carries dengue fever
- Aedes camptorhynchus - southern saltmarsh mosquito
- Bites humans, carries Ross River Virus
- Aedes canadensis
- Aedes cantator - brown saltmarsh mosquito
- Bites humans, carries Eastern equine encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes capensis
- - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Carries heartworm, Jamestown Canyon virus
- Aedes cinereus
- Bites humans, carries Bunyamwera virus, California encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon virus, Sindbis virus, West Nile virus
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- Bites humans
- Aedes communis
- Aedes cordellieri
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- Bites humans
- - western treehole mosquito
- Bites humans
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- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes epactius
- Carries St. Louis encephalitis
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- Bites humans, carries Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes furcifer
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- Bites humans, carries West Nile virus
- Aedes hensilli
- Bites humans, carries Zika virus
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- Carries heartworm, La Crosse virus, Plasmodium gallinaceum
- Aedes hoogstraali
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- Bites humans, carries California encephalitis virus, Keystone virus, , West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
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- Bites humans, carries Jamestown Canyon virus
- Aedes japonicus [3]
- Aedes koreicus
- Aedes lineatopennis
- Aedes luteocephalus
- Aedes malayensis
- Aedes mediovittatus
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- Bites humans, carries California encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes mitchellae
- Carries Eastern equine encephalitis, Tensaw virus
- - western treehole mosquito
- Aedes niveus
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- Bites humans, carries Ross River virus
- Aedes ostentatio
- Aedes pembaensis
- Aedes polynesiensis
- Bites humans, carries Wuchereria bancrofti, dengue fever, Ross River virus
- [4]
- Aedes rusticus
- [5]
- Aedes scapularis
- Aedes scutellaris
- Aedes sollicitans
- Carries West Nile virus
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- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes taeniorhynchus
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes thomsoni
- Aedes vexans
- Carries West Nile virus, heartworm
- Aedes vigilax known after the year 2000 as Ochlerotatus vigilax[6]
- Carries Ross River virus
- Aedes vittatus
References[]
- ^ Harbach, Ralph. "Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory" (PDF). Mosquito Taxonomy Inventory. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Julia Kasper (7 December 2020). "Description of a new species of mosquito, Aedes (Ochlerotatus) arundinariae (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Chatham Islands, New Zealand". New Zealand Entomologist. 43 (2): 93–102. doi:10.1080/00779962.2020.1846988. ISSN 0077-9962. Wikidata Q104800563.
- ^ http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/bites-of-passage[dead link]
- ^ "Aedes punctor | NBN Atlas".
- ^ Kazuo Tanaka, Kiyoyuki Mizusawa and Edward S. Saugstad. 1975. A New Species of the Genus Aedes (Aedes) from Japan, with Synonymical Notes on Japanese Species of the Subgenus Aedes (Diptera, Culicidae). Mosquito Systematics, 7(1):41-54. ABSTRACT: "Aedes (Aedes) sasai, a new species, is described."
- ^ "Aedes vigilax". NSW Arbovirus Surveillance & Vector Monitoring Program. The New South Wales Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Monitoring Program. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
Note that 'Ochlerotatus vigilax' prior to 2000, was known as 'Aedes vigilax'
External links[]
Categories:
- Aedes
- Lists of Diptera