Aedes fryeri
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 fryeri
Visual Description
Aedes fryeri is a mosquito species. Due to the lack of accessible high-resolution imagery, specific morphological details cannot be resolved from the available dataset.[1]
Identification and Ecology
Aedes fryeri (Theobald, 1912) is a mosquito species found in the Seychelles, where it is restricted to coralline islands, including the Aldabra Atoll and Cosmoledo Island.[2] It is also known from the east coast of Africa and Madagascar.[2]
Historically, Ae. fryeri has been confused with an undescribed species, Aedes (Aedimorphus) sp. A, due to similarities in female morphology. The two can be distinguished by the presence of a dorso-median white band on abdominal tergums VI and VII in Ae. fryeri, which is absent in Ae. (Adm.) sp. A.[2]
The species occurs in high densities on coralline islands during the rainy season and is noted for being exceedingly aggressive toward humans during the day.[2] It has been recorded biting giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) on Aldabra-Picard.[2] Larval breeding sites consist of rock pools with varying concentrations of sodium chloride.[2]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / fryeri constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Gilbert Le Goff; Philippe Boussès; Simon Julienne; Cécile Brengues; Nil Rahola; Gérard Rocamora; Vincent Robert. The mosquitoes (Diptera: Culidae) of Seychelles: taxonomy, ecology, vectorial importance, and identification keys. Parasites & Vectors. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-207.