Aedes theobaldi
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 theobaldi
Visual Description
The species Aedes theobaldi is represented in the TreeOfLife-200M dataset through various records, including museum specimens and field observations.[1] Due to the nature of the available imagery, specific morphological traits such as fine scale patterns or exact wing venation cannot be reliably resolved. The specimens generally exhibit the characteristic body form of the family Culicidae, including a slender abdomen, elongated legs, and a distinct head with prominent compound eyes.[1]
General Information
Aedes theobaldi (Taylor, 1914) is a recognized species within the genus Aedes.[2] It was originally described under the name Grabhamia theobaldi.[2]
It is important to distinguish this species from Toxorhynchites theobaldi, a predatory mosquito species often studied in the context of oviposition site selection by other mosquitoes like Aedes aegypti.[3]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / theobaldi constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aedes theobaldi (Taylor, 1914). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1651623. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Daniel Albeny Simões; Ebony G. Murrell; Simon L. Elliot; Mateus Rezende Andrade; Eraldo Lima; Steven A. Juliano; Evaldo F. Vilela. Attracted to the enemy: Aedes aegypti prefers oviposition sites with predator-killed conspecifics. Oecologia. 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-2910-1.