Aedes deserticola
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 deserticola
Description
Aedes deserticola is a species of mosquito described by entomologist Thomas J. Zavortink in 1969.[2] It was identified as a treehole-breeding species found in southern California.[2]
Visual Description
The available images from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset show adult specimens of Aedes deserticola.[1] These mosquitoes exhibit the characteristic slender body form of the family Culicidae, with long, thin legs and prominent, forward-projecting antennae. The coloration includes dark, mottled patterns on the thorax and abdomen, consistent with typical Aedes morphology. Due to the resolution and orientation of the specimens in the dataset, finer diagnostic features such as specific scale patterns on the scutum or abdominal tergites cannot be definitively resolved.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / deserticola constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aedes deserticola Zavortink, 1969. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1651347. Accessed 2026-07-15.