Aedes aegypti
Translingual
Proper noun
Aedes aegypti m
- 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
- (species): Culicidae - family; Culicinae - subfamily; Aedini - tribe; Aedes - genus; Aedes (Stegomyia) - subgenus
References
Aedes aegypti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Aedes aegypti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia