Aedes alternans
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Insecta
- Order: Diptera
- Family: Culicidae
- Genus: Aedes
- Species: Aedes alternans
Visual Description
Aedes alternans, commonly known as the Hexham grey, is a mosquito species characterized by its distinct appearance. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the adult mosquito exhibits a greyish coloration with a patterned body, consistent with its common name.[1] The body structure displays the typical morphology of the family Culicidae, including slender legs and a prominent proboscis.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Aedes alternans (Westwood, 1836) is an accepted species within the genus Aedes.[2] It was originally described as Culex alternans by J.O. Westwood in 1836.[2]
This mosquito has been identified as a vector species in New South Wales, Australia, where it has been associated with the transmission of the Stratford virus (STRV), a member of the genus Flavivirus.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / alternans constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aedes alternans (Westwood, 1836). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1651028. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Cheryl Toi; Cameron Webb; John Haniotis; John Clancy; Stephen L. Doggett. Seasonal activity, vector relationships and genetic analysis of mosquito-borne Stratford virus. PLoS ONE. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173105.