Aedes aegypti

Translingual

Aedes aegypti biting a human

Proper noun

Aedes aegypti m

A taxonomic species within the family Culicidae – the 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): Culicidae - family; Culicinae - subfamily; Aedini - tribe; Aedes - genus; Aedes (Stegomyia) - subgenus

References

Aedes aegypti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aedes aegypti on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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