Aedes japonicus

Aedes japonicus

The Aedes Fauna: Different Aedes Species Inhabiting the Earth

Published in Jagriti Narang, Manika Khanuja, Small Bite, Big Threat, 2020

Annette Angel, Bennet Angel, Neelam Yadav, Jagriti Narang, Surender Singh Yadav, Vinod Joshi

Aedes japonicus belongs to subgenus Finlaya of the genus Aedes. It was first described by an English entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald in 1901 from Tokyo, Japan (Theobald, 1901; Wikipedia. org). It is commonly known as the Asian bush mosquito or the Asian rock pool mosquito while other names in use are Ochlerotatus japonicus japonicus (Reinert, 2000) and Hulecoeteomyia japónica japónica (Reinert et al., 2006; www.Ecdc.europa.eu). The adult mosquito is brownish-black in color and comparatively large in size and has bronze-yellowish lyre-shaped markings on the scutum (Fig. 2.11). Aedes japonicus is basically a group of four subspecies namely Aedes j. japonicus, Aedes j. shintienensis, Aedes j. yaeyamensis, and Aedes j. amamiensus (Kaufman and Fonseca, 2014).

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Published in Pathogens and Global Health, 2018

Silvia Ciocchetta, Natalie A. Prow, Jonathan M. Darbro, Francesca D. Frentiu, Sandro Savino, Fabrizio Montarsi, Gioia Capelli, John G. Aaskov, Gregor J. Devine

The commercial trade in tiers was also the most likely cause of the establishment of Aedes japonicus in Europe [29]. This species has colonized most of Switzerland, large regions in Austria and Germany and is also present in Belgium, France, Netherlands, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia and Lichtenstein [30–32]. In 2016, it was also discovered in Italy [33].

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