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Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Skuse, F.A.A. 1894. The banded mosquito of Bengal. Indian Museum Notes 3(5)[1895]: 20. [1894.11.14]

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Arthropoda
class
Insecta
order
Diptera
family
Culicidae
genus
Aedes
species
Aedes albopictus

Name

Synonyms
Culex albopictus Skuse, 1894
Stegomyia albopicta (Skuse, 1895)
Stegomyia nigritia Ludlow, 1910
Stegomyia quasinigritia Ludlow, 1911
Stegomyia samarensis Ludlow, 1903
Homonyms
Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894)
Common names
Asian Tiger Mosquito in English
Asian Tiger Mosquito, Forest Day Mosquito in English
Asian tiger mosquito in English
Asian tiger mosquito in English
Asian tiger mosquito in language.
Asian tiger mosquito, Forest day mosquito in English
Aziatische tijgermug in Dutch
Forest Day Mosquito in English
Moustique tigre in French
Tiger Mosquito in English
Tiger mosquito in English
Tiger mosquito in English
Tigermyg in Danish
Tigermyg in Danish
Wäissgezeechent Iergermustik in Luxembourgish
asiatisk tigermygga in Swedish
forest day mosquito in English
forest day mosquito in English
forest day mosquito in language.
mosquito tigre in language.
moustique tigre in language.
tiger mosquito in English
tiger mosquito in language.
tiger mosquito in English
tigermücke in language.
zanzare tigre in language.
Aziatische tijgermug in Dutch
asiatisk tigermygga in Swedish

Bibliographic References

  1. Harbach, Ralph E., 2018: null. Culicipedia: Species-group, genus-group and family-group names in Culicidae (Diptera). xviii + 378.
  2. Kommittén för svenska djurnamn (2016) "Formally established Swedish names of species of Culicidae ""Myggnamn Beslut 160530.xlsx""."
  3. Wilkerson, Richard C., Yvonne-Marie Linton and Daniel Strickman, 2021: null. Mosquitoes of the World, vol. 1 and 2. ix + 1308.
  4. Wilkerson, Richard C., Yvonne-Marie Linton, Dina M. Fonseca, Ted R. Schultz, Dana C. Price, et al., 2015: Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships. PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 7, e0133602. 1-26.
  5. Winchester and Kapan (2013), https://doi.org/10.2987/12-6292R.1
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