Aedes imprimens
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 imprimens
Visual Description
Aedes imprimens exhibits the characteristic morphology of the family Culicidae. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that, like other members of the genus Aedes, it possesses a slender body, long, delicate legs, and a pair of functional wings typical of dipteran insects.[1] Due to the limitations of the available photographic material, finer diagnostic features such as specific thoracic scale patterns or abdominal banding are not clearly resolvable.
Distribution and Taxonomy
Aedes imprimens was originally described by Francis Walker in 1860 as Culex imprimens based on specimens collected in Amboyna.[2] The species has been historically documented within the context of Japanese mosquito fauna and taxonomic revisions.[3]
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / imprimens constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aedes imprimens (Walker, 1860). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1652176. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Hideo Mizuta. Occurrence of two rare mosquito species, Aedes bekkui and Verrallina nobukonis (Diptera: Culicidae) in southern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2011. https://doi.org/10.7601/mez.62.195.