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Aedes aegypti
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Translingual
right|thumb|Aedes aegypti biting a human
Etymology
From mul la aegyptus aegyptī Egyptian. mul Q1043 1762.
Proper noun
Aedes aegyptus aegypti la 1 m
species family Culicidae the yellow-fever mosquito; a daytime-feeding mosquito most responsible for transmission of diseases such as dengue fever, yellow fever, and Zika fever, native to Africa, now naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, possibly spreading to more temperate regions
Hypernyms
species Diptera order order; Nematocera suborder suborder; Culicomorpha infraorder infraorder; Culicoidea superfamily superfamily; Culicidae family family; Culicinae subfamily subfamily; Aedini tribe tribe; Aedes genus genus; Aedes (Stegomyia) subgenus 1 subgenus
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List of sequenced animal genomes
mul Dipterans