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Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Linnaeus, C. 1762. Zweyter Theil, enthalt Beschreibungen verschiedenerwichtiger Naturalien, pp. 267-606. In: Gadebusch, T.H., Reise nach Palastina in den Jahren von 1749 bis 1752. viii + 606 pp. J. C.Koppe, Rostock. [1762.07.??]

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Diptera
family
Culicidae
genus
Aedes
species
Aedes aegypti

Name

Synonyms
Culex aegypti Linnaeus, 1762
Culex albopalposus Becker, 1908
Culex angustealatus Becker, 1908
Culex annulitarsis Macquart, 1846
Culex argenteus Poiret, 1787
Culex augens Wiedemann, 1828
Culex bancrofti Skuse, 1889
Culex calopus Meigen, 1818
Culex calopus Wiedemann, 1818
Culex elegans Ficalbi, 1889
Culex exagitans Walker, 1856
Culex excitans Walker, 1848
Culex fasciatus Fabricius, 1805
Culex frater Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827
Culex inexorabilis Walker, 1848
Culex insatiabilis Bigot, 1859
Culex kounoupi Brullé, 1833
Culex kououpi Brullé, 1833
Culex mosquito Robineau-Desvoidy, 1827
Culex rossii Giles, 1899
Homonyms
Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)
Common names
Yellow fever mosquito in English
Yellow fever mosquito in English
stégomyie in French
stégomyie in language.
yellow fever mosquito in English
yellow fever mosquito in language.
yellow fever mosquito in language.
yellowfever mosquito in English
Denguemug in Dutch
Gelekoortsmug in Dutch
Yellow Fever Mosquito in English
gulafebernmygga in Swedish
Dengue Fever Mosquito in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Harbach, Ralph E., 2018: null. Culicipedia: Species-group, genus-group and family-group names in Culicidae (Diptera). xviii + 378.
  2. Kommittén för svenska djurnamn (2016-05-31 22:00:00) "Formally established Swedish names of species of Culicidae ""Myggnamn Beslut 160530.xlsx""."
  3. Kommittén för svenska djurnamn (2016-05-31 22:00:00) "Formally established Swedish names of species of Culicidae ""Myggnamn Beslut 160530.xlsx""."
  4. Roldán G. 1988. Guía para el estudio de los macroinvertebrados acuáticos del departamento de Antioquia. Fondo FEN- Colombia. Edit. Presencia, Bogotá. https://ianas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/wbp13.pdf
  5. Ruiz, N., Rincón, G. A., Parra, H. J., & Duque, J. E. (2018). Dinámica de oviposición de Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae), estado gonadotrófico y coexistencia con otros culícidos en el área Metropolitana de Bucaramanga, Colombia. Revista de La Universidad Industrial de Santander, 50(4), 308–319. http://doi.org/10.18273/revsal.v50n4-2018004
  6. Wilkerson, Richard C., Yvonne-Marie Linton and Daniel Strickman, 2021: null. Mosquitoes of the World, vol. 1 and 2. ix + 1308.
  7. Wilkerson, Richard C., Yvonne-Marie Linton, Dina M. Fonseca, Ted R. Schultz, Dana C. Price, et al., 2015: Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships. PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 7, e0133602. 1-26.
  8. Winchester and Kapan (2013), https://doi.org/10.2987/12-6292R.1
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