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.
List
- Aedes australis
- 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, Zika virus
- 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, Yellow Fever, Zika 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 bahamensis
- 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
- 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
- Aedes clivis
- Bites man
- Aedes communis - woodland snow pool mosquito
- Bites man, carries California encephalitis virus, Jamestown Canyon virus, Sindbis virus
- Aedes cordellieri
- 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 hensilli
- Bites man, carries Zika virus
- Aedes hesperonotius
- Carries heartworm, La Crosse virus, Plasmodium gallinaceum
- Aedes hexodontus - woodland floodwater mosquito
- Bites man, carries Jamestown Canyon virus, snowshoe hare virus
- Aedes hoogstraali
- 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 kochi
- Aedes kompi
- Aedes koreicus
- Aedes lineatopennis
- Aedes luteocephalus
- Aedes madagascarensis
- Aedes malayensis
- Aedes marshallii
- Aedes masculinus
- Aedes mediolineatus
- Aedes mediovittatus
- 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/news/world/bites-of-passage
- ↑ 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. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
Note that 'Ochlerotatus vigilax' prior to 2000, was known as 'Aedes vigilax'
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