Biology:Aedes vigilax

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Short description: Species of mosquito

Aedes vigilax
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Species:
A. vigilax
Binomial name
Aedes vigilax
(Skuse, 1889)

Aedes vigilax is a species of mosquito in the Indomalayan region and Australasian region.

Distribution

Aedes vigilax's geographic distribution is, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia (including Java, Flores, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra including the Ketulauan Riouw Archipelago, Timor), Malaysia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides, Philippines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Tonga, Vanuatu and Vietnam.[1][2]

Ecology

Individual Aedes vigilax adults can fly over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) as they disperse across an area.[3]

References

  1. "Aedes vigilax". CABI Compendium. 2022. doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.94930. 
  2. "Aedes vigilax". 2021. http://wrbu.si.edu/vectorspecies/mosquitoes/vigilax. 
  3. Madzokere, Eugene T.; Hallgren, Willow; Sahin, Oz; Webster, Julie A.; Webb, Cameron E.; Mackey, Brendan; Herrero, Lara J. (December 2020). "Integrating statistical and mechanistic approaches with biotic and environmental variables improves model predictions of the impact of climate and land-use changes on future mosquito-vector abundance, diversity and distributions in Australia". Parasites & Vectors 13 (1). doi:10.1186/s13071-020-04360-3. 

Wikidata ☰ Q14573632 entry