Aedes sagax
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 sagax
Description
Aedes sagax is a species of mosquito in the family Culicidae. It was originally described by F.A.A. Skuse in 1889 as Culex sagax in his work on the Diptera of Australia.[2]
Visual Description
Based on observations of specimens in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset, Aedes sagax exhibits typical culicid morphology.[1] The body is slender, characteristic of the genus Aedes, with distinct segmentation of the thorax and abdomen. The wings are membranous and held in a position typical for resting mosquitoes. The head features prominent compound eyes and elongated, slender antennae. The legs are long and thin, with visible tarsal segments. Coloration appears to be a mix of dark and lighter scales, providing a mottled appearance on the thorax and abdomen.[1]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / sagax constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Aedes sagax (Skuse, 1889). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1651041. Accessed 2026-07-15.