Pest Organisms / Yellow Fever Mosquito
Sources
How we know: this page draws on university cooperative extension and government sources only. - University of Florida IFAS Extension — Featured Creatures, *Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti* (EENY-434/IN792): identification, life cycle, breeding sites, distribution, disease vector status, prevention. https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792 - University of Florida IFAS Extension — *Mosquitoes and their Control* (ENY-753/IN1045): source reduction, larvicides, personal protection. https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/in1045 - Mississippi State University Extension — *Pest Snapshot: Yellow Fever Mosquito*: identification, container breeding, disease vector status, control. https://extension.msstate.edu/publications/pest-snapshot-yellow-fever-mosquito-aedes-aegypti - University of California Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM) — *Mosquitoes, Home and Landscape*: source reduction, Bti, repellents, screens. https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/mosquitoes/ - Rutgers University Center for Vector Biology — *The Yellow Fever Mosquito*: flight range, feeding times, container breeding. https://vectorbio.rutgers.edu/outreach/species/sp5.htm - U.S. CDC Yellow Book — *Dengue*: dengue transmission by Aedes aegypti (disease-transmission claim only). https://www.cdc.gov/yellow-book/hcp/travel-associated-infections-diseases/dengue.html - ITIS (itis.gov), TSN 126240: taxonomy, authority (Linnaeus, 1762). https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=126240
Taxonomy note: ITIS lists the accepted name as *Aedes aegypti* (subgenus *Stegomyia*) and carries *Stegomyia aegypti* as the alternative combination; the dispute is at the genus level (*Aedes* vs. *Stegomyia*), not the family. Family Culicidae is not contested. Source: https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=126240
Review status: unreviewed (draft).