- List of Aedes species
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The large mosquito genus Aedes includes the following species. Where known, this list will indicate whether the species bites man and any pathogens the species carries:
List
- Aedes aboriginis - northwest coast mosquito
- Bites man
- Aedes abserratus - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Bites man, carries Jamestown Canyon virus
- Aedes aegypti - yellow fever mosquito
- Bites man, carries chikungunya, dengue fever, heartworm, Murray Valley encephalitis, Ross River virus, West Nile virus, yellow fever
- Aedes africanus
- Aedes albolineatus
- Aedes alboniveus
- Aedes albopictus - Asian tiger mosquito
- Bites man, carries Cache Valley virus, chikungunya, dengue fever, Eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile virus
- Aedes albolineatus
- Aedes alboscutellatus
- Aedes aloponotum
- Aedes amesii
- Aedes annulipes
- Aedes arboricola
- Aedes argenteoventralis
- Aedes atlanticus
- Carries Keystone virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes atropalpus also spelled Aedes atropalpos
- Bites man, carries La Crosse virus, Plasmodium gallinaceum, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus
- Aedes aurifer
- Bites man
- Aedes aurimargo
- Aedes aurotaeniatus
- Aedes axitiosus
- Aedes barraudi
- Aedes bekkui
- Aedes bicristatus
- Bites man
- Aedes bimaculatus
- Bites man
- Aedes brelandi
- Carries dengue fever
- Aedes brevitibia
- Aedes burgeri
- Aedes cacozelus
- Aedes campestris
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, heartworm, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes canadensis - woodland pool mosquito
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, heartworm Jamestown Canyon virus, La Crosse virus. lyme disease, West Nile virus
- Aedes cantans
- Aedes cantator - brown saltmarsh mosquito
- Bites man, carries Eastern equine encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes caspius
- Aedes cataphylla - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Carries heartworm, Jamestown Canyon virus
- Aedes cavaticus
- Aedes churchillensis
- Aedes cinereus
- Bites man, carries Bunyamwera virus, California encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, Jamestown Canyon virus, Sindbis virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes clivis
- Bites man
- Aedes communis - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, Jamestown Canyon virus, Sindbis virus
- Aedes coulangesi
- Aedes cretinus
- Bites man
- Aedes dasyorrhus
- Aedes decticus
- Aedes deserticola - western treehole mosquito
- Bites man
- Aedes desmotes
- Aedes diantaeus
- Aedes domesticus
- Aedes dorsalis - summer saltmarsh mosquito
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes dupreei
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes eldridgei
- Aedes epactius
- Carries St. Louis encephalitis
- Aedes esoensis
- Aedes euedes
- Aedes excrucians - woodland mosquito
- Bites man, carries heartworm, Sindbis virus
- Aedes fitchii - woodland mosquito
- Bites man, carries Aleutian mink disease, heartworm, West Nile virus
- Aedes flavescens
- Carries heartworm, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes fulvus
- Bites man, carries Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, West Nile virus
- Aedes furcifer
- Aedes futunae
- Aedes ganapathi
- Aedes geminus
- Aedes gombakensis
- Aedes grassei
- Aedes grossbecki
- Bites man, carries West Nile virus
- Aedes harinasutai
- Aedes helenae
- Aedes hendersoni
- Aedes hesperonotius
- Carries heartworm, La Crosse virus, Plasmodium gallinaceum
- Aedes hexodontus - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Bites man, carries Jamestown Canyon virus, snowshoe hare virus
- Aedes horotoi
- Aedes impiger
- Bites man
- Aedes implicatus
- Bites man, carries snowshoe hare virus
- Aedes imprimens
- Aedes increpitus - woodland mosquito
- Bites man
- Aedes inermis
- Aedes infirmatus
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, Keystone virus, trivittatus virus, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes intrudens
- Bites man, carries Jamestown Canyon virus
- Aedes japonicus [1]
- Aedes koreicus
- Aedes kochi
- Aedes kompi
- Aedes lineatopennis
- Aedes madagascarensis
- Aedes marshallii
- Aedes masculinus
- Aedes mediolineatus
- Aedes mefouensis
- Aedes melanimon
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes mercurator
- Aedes meronephada
- Aedes michaelikati
- Aedes mitchellae
- Carries Eastern equine encephalitis, Tensaw virus
- Aedes mohani
- Aedes monticola - western treehole mosquito
- Aedes muelleri
- Aedes nevadensis
- Aedes ngong
- Aedes nigripes
- Bites man
- Aedes nigromaculis - pasture floodwater mosquito
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, St. Louis encephalitis, West Nile virus, Western equine encephalitis
- Aedes niphadopsis
- Aedes niveus
- Aedes nummatus
- Aedes ostentatio
- Aedes palpalis
- Aedes pembaensis
- Aedes pexus
- Aedes pionops
- Aedes polynesiensis
- Bites man, carries Wuchereria bancrofti, dengue fever
- Aedes provocans
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes pseudoniveus
- Aedes pseudonummatus
- Aedes pulchritarsis
- Aedes pullatus
- Aedes pulverulentus
- Aedes punctodes
- Aedes punctor
- Aedes purpureipes
- Aedes purpureifemur
- Aedes rempeli
- Aedes riparius
- Aedes rusticus
- Aedes scapularis
- Aedes schizopinax
- Aedes scutellaris
- Aedes sierrensis
- Aedes sollicitans
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes spencerii
- Aedes spilotus
- Aedes squamiger
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes sticticus
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes stimulans
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes stricklandi
- Aedes sylvaticus
- Aedes taeniorhynchus
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes taylori
- Aedes thelcter
- Aedes thibaulti
- Aedes thomsoni
- Aedes tiptoni
- Aedes togoi
- Aedes tormentor
- Aedes tortilis
- Aedes triseriatus[2]
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes trivittatus
- Carries West Nile virus
- Aedes turneri
- Aedes varipalpus
- Aedes ventrovittis
- Aedes vexans
- Carries West Nile virus, heartworm
- Aedes vigilax known after the year 2000 as Ochlerotatus vigilax[3]
- Carries Ross River virus
- Aedes vittatus
- Aedes washinoi
- Aedes wauensis
- Aedes zoosophus
References
- ^ http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090925/REVIEW/709249996/1008
- ^ http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090925/REVIEW/709249996/1008
- ^ "Aedes vigilax". NSW Arbovirus Surveillance & Vector Monitoring Program. The New South Wales Arbovirus Surveillance and Mosquito Monitoring Program. http://medent.usyd.edu.au/arbovirus/mosquit/aedesvigilax.htm. Retrieved 2010-06-05. "Note that 'Ochlerotatus vigilax' prior to 2000, was known as 'Aedes vigilax'"
External links
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