Aedes apicoargenteus

Aedes apicoargenteus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Subgenus: Stegomyia
Species: A. apicoargenteus
Binomial name
Aedes apicoargenteus
Theobald, 1910

Aedes apicoargenteus is an African mosquito species, first described as Stegomyia apicoargentea from specimens collected in Ashanti, Ghana.[1]

Bionomics

Adults have been collected along bush-paths in bush habitat near Obuasi and Kumasi, Ghana.[1] Distribution includes Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanganyika, Togo, and Uganda.[2][3][4]

Medical importance

Adult Aedes apicoargenteus are human-biters, and vectors of Zika virus, the causative agent of Zika fever.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 F. V. Theobald. 1910. Five new Culicidae from Ashanti. Annual Magazine of Natural History 8(5):373-378; 373-374; http://direct.biostor.org/reference/73113.
  2. ↑ Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. Aedes (Stegomyia) apicoargenteus Theobald, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17760, accessed 5 Feb 2016.
  3. ↑ A. Smith. 1956. Notes on Microclimate at the Sites of Breeding and Biting of Aedes Species (Diptera: Culicidae) on Ukara Island, Tanganyika. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology, 31(4-6): 81–85; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-3032.1956.tb00212.x/abstract.
  4. ↑ Sylla M, Ndiaye M, Black WC. 2013. Aedes species in treeholes and fruit husks between dry and wet seasons in southeastern Senegal. Journal of Vector Ecology 38(2):237-244, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24581351.
  5. ↑ Heiman F. L. Wertheim, Peter Horby, John P. Woodall (eds.). 2012. Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing; p. 273; https://books.google.com/books?id=aeYOlRJwJZ0C&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=%22Ae.+apicoargenteus%22&source=bl&ots=W8tBsCjTJB&sig=wtBPzii58pdONJtMwsmIvPi008s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkiJv44ODKAhUH2R4KHRGaDGEQ6AEIQjAH#v=onepage&q=%22Ae.%20apicoargenteus%22&f=false.


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