Aedes vigilax
Appearance
Aedes vigilax | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Culicidae |
Genus: | Aedes |
Subgenus: | Ochlerotatus |
Species: | A. vigilax
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Binomial name | |
Aedes vigilax (Skuse, 1889)
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Aedes vigilax is a species of mosquito in the Indomalayan region and Australasian region.
Distribution
[edit]Aedes vigilax's geographic distribution is, Australia, Fiji, Indonesia (including Java, Flores, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Sumatra including the Ketulauan Riouw Archipelago, Timor), Malaysia, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides, Philippines, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Tonga, Vanuatu and Vietnam.[1][2]
Ecology
[edit]Individual Aedes vigilax adults can fly over 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) as they disperse across an area.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Aedes vigilax". CABI Compendium. 2022. doi:10.1079/cabicompendium.94930. S2CID 253958750.
- ^ "Aedes vigilax". 2021.
- ^ Madzokere, Eugene T.; Hallgren, Willow; Sahin, Oz; Webster, Julie A.; Webb, Cameron E.; Mackey, Brendan; Herrero, Lara J. (December 2020). "Integrating statistical and mechanistic approaches with biotic and environmental variables improves model predictions of the impact of climate and land-use changes on future mosquito-vector abundance, diversity and distributions in Australia". Parasites & Vectors. 13 (1). doi:10.1186/s13071-020-04360-3. hdl:10072/402373.