Aedes fryeri
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 fryeri
Visual Description
Aedes fryeri is a mosquito species. Due to the lack of accessible high-resolution imagery, specific morphological details cannot be resolved from the available dataset.[1]
Identification and Ecology
Aedes fryeri (Theobald, 1912) is a mosquito species found in the Seychelles, where it is restricted to coralline islands, including the Aldabra Atoll and Cosmoledo Island.[2] It is also known from the east coast of Africa and Madagascar.
Historically, Ae. fryeri has been confused with an undescribed species, Aedes (Aedimorphus) sp. A, due to similarities in female morphology. The two can be distinguished by the presence of a dorso-median white band on abdominal tergums VI and VII in Ae. fryeri, which is absent in Ae. (Adm.) sp. A.
The species occurs in high densities on coralline islands during the rainy season and is noted for being exceedingly aggressive toward humans during the day. It has been recorded biting giant tortoises (Aldabrachelys gigantea) on Aldabra-Picard. Larval breeding sites consist of rock pools with varying concentrations of sodium chloride.
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Diptera / Culicidae / Aedes / fryeri constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Gilbert Le Goff; Philippe Boussès; Simon Julienne; Cécile Brengues; Nil Rahola; Gérard Rocamora; Vincent Robert. The mosquitoes (Diptera: Culidae) of Seychelles: taxonomy, ecology, vectorial importance, and identification keys. Parasites & Vectors. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-5-207.