Aedes apicoargenteus is an African mosquito species, first described as Stegomyia apicoargentea from specimens collected in Ashanti, Ghana.[1]
| Aedes apicoargenteus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Aedes |
| Subgenus: | Stegomyia |
| Species: | A. apicoargenteus
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| Binomial name | |
| Aedes apicoargenteus Theobald, 1910
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Bionomics
editAdults 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
editAdult Aedes apicoargenteus are human-biters, and vectors of Zika virus, the causative agent of Zika fever.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b 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 Archived 2017-12-15 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Smith, A. (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. 31 (4–6): 81–85. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1956.tb00212.x.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1111/j.1948-7134.2013.12036.x. PMID 24581351.
- ^ Wertheim, Heiman F. L.; Horby, Peter; Woodall, John P. (2012-03-26). Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases, Includes Desktop Edition. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-4051-8440-3.
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