Aedes vittiger
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 vittiger
Visual Description
Aedes vittiger is a mosquito species characterized by distinct morphological features. Observations from the TreeOfLife-200M dataset indicate that the adult mosquito exhibits a dark, patterned body with prominent light-colored, often yellowish or white, longitudinal stripes on the thorax and abdomen.[1] The legs typically show banded patterns, a common trait in many Aedes species.[1]
Biology and Classification
Aedes vittiger was originally described by F.A.A. Skuse in 1889 as Culex vittiger.[2] It is an accepted species within the genus Aedes.[2] Like other mosquitoes, it is known to interact with vertebrate hosts, including humans, as a blood source.[3]
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References
- 1 2 3 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / vittiger constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Aedes vittiger (Skuse, 1889). GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/1650992. Accessed 2026-07-15.
- ↑ Aedes vittiger. Global Biotic Interactions. https://www.globalbioticinteractions.org/?targetTaxon=Aedes%20vittiger. Accessed 2026-07-14.