An annotated checklist of the Diptera of the Galápagos Archipelago (Ecuador)
Author
Sinclair, Bradley J.
0000-0001-6413-1606
bradley.sinclair@inspection.gc.ca
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-05-09
5283
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5283.1.1
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aegypti
Linnaeus
Aedes aegypti
Linnaeus, 1762: 470
.
Causton
et al
. 2006: 126
[introduced species];
Causton & Sevilla 2007: 144
[introduced species];
Sinclair 2009: 112
[introduced species];
Asigau
et al
. 2017: 247
[island records].
Distribution.
Introduced. Cosmopolitan; Galápagos: Isabela,
San Cristóbal
, Santa Cruz.
Remarks.
The first established record of this day-feeding species was in 2001 and it is a vector of Dengue fever (
Causton
et al
. 2006
;
Asigau
et al
. 2017
).