Aedes furcifer
| Aedes furcifer | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Aedes |
| Species: | A. furcifer
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| Binomial name | |
| Aedes furcifer Edwards, 1913
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Aedes furcifer was named in 1913 as a sympatrically, but are difficult to separate morphologically[3] so the term "Aedes furcifer-taylori group" has been used for the two species, and they have not always been differentiated by workers conducting studies on them.[3]
Aedes furcifer is the type species for the Aedes (Diceromyia) furcifer group in the
taxa.[4]
Bionomics
Aedes furcifer is a "tree hole mosquito",Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.[2]
Medical Importance
vector of chikungunya virus.[2]
Aedes furcifer feeds readily on monkeys and humans
References
- ^ F. W. Edwards. 1913. Further Notes on African Culicidae. Bulletin of Entomological Research, IV: 47-59; 48; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/039100-8.pdf Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b c d Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Aedes (Dic.) furcifer" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/SpeciesPages_non-ANO/non-ANO_A-hab/AEfur_hab.html Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 12 Feb 2016.
- ^ a b c d Yiau-Min Huang. 1986. Notes on the Aedes (Diceromyia) furcifer Group, With a Description of a New Species (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88(4): 634-649; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/wr237.pdf Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ P. G. Jupp. 1998. Aedes (Diceromyia) furcifer (Edwards) and Aedes (Diceromyia) cordellieri Huang in Southern Africa: Distribution and Morphological Differentiation. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 14(3):273-276; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/content/part/JAMCA/JAMCA_V14_N3_P273-276.pdf.
- ^ PMID 1977875.
- PMID 25310102.
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