Aedes

From Ganfyd

Several species of mosquito, cf Anopheles. See also mosquito

• Aedes aegypti
  

  

  Aedes egypti (needed)
  • Distribution potentially worldwide, it is likely to recolonise cooler climes with climate change and lapsing of pesticide and other control measures that eliminated it from former habitates
  • Primary vector of dengue and yellow fever
  • Females active in daylight and readily enter buildings
  • Breeds in any reasonably calm water
• Aedes albopictus which carries Chickungunya fever has internationalised its distribution worryingly.
  

  

  Aedes albopictus (needed)

In 1980 it was found in Indian Ocean around southern Eastern Africa and Madagascar, South East Asia in a belt from India through Burma to Philippines and Borneo and in Japan and Manchuria but now it is found throughout North Americia, Central Americia, much of South Americia, Southern Europe, Equatorial West Africa, China and Mongolia, Australia and New Guinea.

• • Distribution India/Bengal originally
  • Vector of dengue and yellow fever.
  • Could also transmit:
    • Eastern equine encephalitis
    • Western equine encephalitis
    • West Nile fever
    • Chikungunya fever
    • Japanese encephalitis
• Aedes africanus
  • Distribution central Africa
  • Transmits yellow fever
  • Could transmit Chikungunya fever and Rift Valley fever
• Aedes bromeliae
  • Distribution central Africa
  • Transmits yellow fever
• Aedes caspius
  • Transmits Rift Valley fever
• Aedes cooki
  • Distribution Polynesia
  • Vector of filariasis.
• Aedes furcifer
  • Distribution central and southern Africa
  • Transmits yellow fever
  • Likely to transmit Chikungunya fever and dengue 2
• Aedes luteocephalus
  • Distribution central and southern Africa
  • Transmits yellow fever
  • Likely to transmit Chikungunya fever, Zika and dengue 2
• Aedes kochi
  • Distribution Micronesia
  • Vector Wuchereria bancrofti causing lymphatic filariasis
• Aedes mcintoshi
  • Distribution central and southern Africa, Australia
  • Main vector Rift Valley fever
• Aedes niveus
  • Distribution South East Asia
  • Vector Wuchereria bancrofti causing lymphatic filariasis
• Aedes normanensis
  • Distribution Australia
  • Vector of Murray Valley fever and Ross River virus
• Aedes poicilius
• Distribution Asia
  • Vector filariasis (Primary vector in Philippines)
• Aedes polynesiensis
  • Distribution polynesia
  • Vector Wuchereria bancrofti causing lymphatic filariasis
• Aedes scutellaris
  • Distribution New Guinea
  • Presumed vector Dengue fever
• Aedes taylori
  • Central and southern Africa
  • Transmits yellow fever
  • Likely to transmit Chikungunya fever and dengue 2
• Aedes taeniorhynchus
  • Central America
  • Transmits Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• Aedes togoi
  • Distribution Northern latitudes
  • Suspected vector Brugia malayi, Wuchereria bancrofti, Dirofilaria immitis (filariasis)and Japanese encephalitis
• Aedes vexans
  • Vector dog heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) which is important in domesticated animals
• Aedes vigilax
  • New Caledonia region
  • Vector filariasis