Aedes provocans
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 provocans
Visual Description
Aedes provocans is a mosquito species. Due to the limitations of the available dataset images, which primarily consist of museum specimens, detailed morphological traits such as fine scale patterns or specific wing venation cannot be definitively resolved. However, the specimens generally exhibit the characteristic slender body form and long, thin legs typical of the family Culicidae.[1]
Biology and Ecology
Aedes provocans (Walker, 1848), commonly known as the "Provoking Mosquito," was originally described by Francis Walker.[2] It is a member of the family Culicidae, which includes various mosquito species.[3]
Ecological interactions recorded for this species include visits to flowers of plants in the families Asteraceae, Rutaceae, and Rosaceae, suggesting a role in plant-insect interactions.[4]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / provocans constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aedes provocans (Walker, 1848). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1652335. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Aedes provocans. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_provocans. Accessed 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Aedes provocans. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Aedes%20provocans. Accessed 2026-07-14.