Published June 1, 1942 | Version v1
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Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti Dyar, Insect. Inscit.

Creators

  • 1. Experiment Station, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, Honolulu

Description

3. Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus).

Culex aegypti Linnaeus, Hass. Pal. Reise, 470, 1762.

Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) Dyar, Insect. Inscit. mens. 7: 204, 1920.

This is the widely spread yellow fever mosquito. We did not note this mosquito in 1936, but in the lot of the preceding species reared by Cruz, I found nine specimens of this species.

Notes

Published as part of Swezey, O. H., 1942, Culicidae of Guam, pp. 199-200 in Insects of Guam I, Honolulu, Hawaii :Bernice P. Bishop Museum on page 199, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5173998

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1937-11-10
Family
Culicidae
Genus
Aedes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Diptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Dyar, Insect. Inscit.
Species
aegypti
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1937-11-10
Taxonomic concept label
Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) sec. Swezey, 1942