Aedes aegypti
Translingual edit
Proper noun edit
- A taxonomic species within the family Culicidae – the daytime-feeding mosquito most responsible for transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika fever, native to Africa, now naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, possibly spreading to more temperate regions.
Hypernyms edit
- (species): Diptera - order; Nematocera - suborder; Culicomorpha - infraorder; Culicoidea - superfamily; Culicidae - family; Culicinae - subfamily; Aedini - tribe; Aedes - genus; Aedes (Stegomyia) - subgenus
References edit
- Aedes aegypti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Aedes aegypti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia