Aedes leucomelas
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 leucomelas
Visual Description
Aedes leucomelas is a mosquito species. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the adult form exhibits characteristic culicid morphology, including a slender body, long, thin legs, and a pair of wings.[1] The coloration typically includes dark and light patterns on the thorax and abdomen, which are common features in many Aedes species.[1]
Ecology and Distribution
Aedes leucomelas (Meigen, 1804) is recognized as a common temperate-region "snow-melt" mosquito species.[2] In a study of the mosquito fauna across five Polish towns (Szczecin, Świnoujście, Gdańsk, Warsaw, and Wroclaw), this species was recorded in all five study locations, indicating a broad distribution within that region.[2]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / leucomelas constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Elżbieta Wegner. Mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae) of five different towns in Poland with special reference to the occurence of human disease vectors. Fragmenta Faunistica. 2008. https://doi.org/10.3161/00159301ff2008.51.1.015.