Aedes canadensis

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 849 meters (0 to 2,785 feet).[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Theobald, F.V. A monograph of the Culicidae or mosquitoes. Volume 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. xviii + 424 pp. [1901.11.23], 1901.

Last scrutiny: 2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aedes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. aboriginis (Morthwest Coast Mosquito) · A. aegypti (Yellowfever Mosquito) · A. albopictus (Asian Tiger Mosquito) · A. triseriatus (Treehole Mosquito) · A. vexans (Inland Floodwater Mosquito)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A synopsis of the mosquitoes of Illinois (Diptera, Culicidae) / by Herbert H. Ross [and] William R. Horsfall. Urbana: State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Natural History Survey Division, 1965. url p. 7.
• Annals / Entomological Society of America. Baltimore [etc.] url p. 159, p. 375.
• Annals of the Entomological Society of America. [College Park, Md., etc.]: Entomological Society of America. url p. 159, p. 375.
• Annual report / Albany: University of the State of New York, 1902-1918. url p. 66, p. 67.
• Annual report / Entomological Society of Ontario. Toronto, The Society. url p. 124, p. 65, p. 68.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 420, p. 424, p. 425.
• Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station. [Orono, Me.: Maine State College, 1885-1953. url p. 225.
• Annual report of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants from Insects and Fungous Diseases. Quebec: The Society, 1909-1920. url .
• Annual report of the State Entomologist of Minnesota to the Governor for the year. .. St. Anthony Park, Minn.: Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903-1916. url p. 83.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 1386.
• Bulletin / Illinois Natural History Survey. Urbana, State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Natural History Survey Division, 1918-1985. url , p. 17, p. 20, p. 455, p. 7, p. 78.
• Bulletin / New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. [New Brunswick, N.J.]: The Station, 1880- url p. 18, p. 19, p. 22, p. 25, p. 30, p. 5.
• Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New YorkAmerican Museum of Natural History1881- url p. 46.
• Bulletin. [Hanover, N.H.]: New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, 1888-1948. url p. 19, p. 5.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url , , , , , , p. 118, p. 299, p. 307, p. 490, p. 647, p. 648, p. 649, p. 653, p. 655, p. 682, p. 732, p. 746, p. 801.
• Cooperative economic insect report. Hyattsville, MD. [etc.]Plant Protection and Quarantine Programs Animal and Plant Health Service. url , p. 10, p. 103, p. 107, p. 11, p. 111, p. 1121, p. 13, p. 14, p. 14, p. 14, p. 146, p. 15, p. 150, p. 158, p. 158, p. 17, p. 173, p. 177, p. 2, p. 2, p. 2, p. 2, p. 204, p. 207, p. 215, p. 215, p. 216, p. 218, p. 220, p. 228, p. 246, p. 247, p. 260, p. 264, p. 266, p. 276, p. 280, p. 281, p. 285, p. 285, p. 287, p. 290, p. 3, p. 3, p. 3, p. 3, p. 300, p. 306, p. 312, p. 318, p. 323, p. 325, p. 328, p. 336, p. 344, p. 345, p. 345, p. 350, p. 363, p. 378, p. 386, p. 388, p. 388, p. 393, p. 399, p. 403, p. 409, p. 416, p. 435, p. 435, p. 436, p. 456, p. 467, p. 472, p. 487, p. 488, p. 491, p. 496, p. 499, p. 520, p. 530, p. 533, p. 552, p. 557, p. 563, p. 569, p. 584, p. 586, p. 604, p. 610, p. 681, p. 770, p. 831.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] url p. 109, p. 109, p. 125, p. 244, p. 296, p. 320, p. 67, p. 71, p. 71.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 234, p. 250.
• Field book of insects, with special reference to those of northeastern United States, aiming to answer common questions, by Frank E. Lutz. New York, G. P. Putnam, c1921. url p. 240.
• Field book of insects: with special reference to those of north-eastern United States, aiming to answer common questions / London: G. P. Putnam, 1921. url p. 240.
• Index to the literature of American economic entomology. Melrose Highlands, Mass. [etc.], American Association of Economic Entomologists [etc.], 1917-62. url p. 5.
• Insecutor inscitiae menstruus. Washington, D.C.: [Harrison G. Dyar], 1913-1926. url p. 103, p. 112, p. 18, p. 189, p. 28, p. 30, p. 87.
• Journal of economic entomology. [College Park, Md., etc.]Entomological Society of America [etc.] url p. 232, p. 517, p. 518, p. 569.
• Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Chicago [etc.] url p. 633.
• Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society. Chapel Hill, N.C. [etc.]Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society [etc.] url p. 91, p. 91.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] url p. 200.
• Mosquito eradication, New York [etc.]McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1922. url p. 229, p. 232, p. 41, p. 42.
• Mosquitoes in Connecticut / New Haven: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 1960. url , p. 16, p. 17.
• New York State Museum bulletin. Albany, N.Y.: University of the State of New York, 1916-1944. url p. 66, p. 67.
• Pamphlets on forestry in Maine. [1900?- url p. 19.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url , , p. 146, p. 146, p. 149, p. 169, p. 171, p. 19, p. 235, p. 236, p. 237, p. 237, p. 237, p. 238, p. 240, p. 268, p. 313, p. 41, p. 42, p. 43, p. 44, p. 44, p. 47, p. 48, p. 82.
• Report of the State Entomologist of Connecticut for the year. .. New Haven, [1902- url , p. 442, p. 445, p. 582, p. 613, p. 619.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 50 1908 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 541, p. 547.
• The Canadian entomologist. Ottawa [etc.]Entomological Society of Canada [etc.] url p. 114, p. 114.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 86.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 9 1948 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 66.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng. [etc.]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux [etc.] url p. 106, p. 108, p. 119, p. 155, p. 178, p. 199, p. 201, p. 203, p. 203, p. 239, p. 244, p. 247, p. 66, p. 8, p. 93.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 39 1958 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 263, p. 266, p. 267, p. 268, p. 270, p. 272.
• The mosquitoes of New Jersey and their control, by Thomas J. Headlee. New Brunswick, Rutgers university press, 1945. url p. 105, p. 108, p. 109, p. 13, p. 130, p. 14, p. 15, p. 153, p. 163, p. 232, p. 241, p. 285.
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Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 12, 2007:

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility, Canadian National Collection of Insects

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2593952
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Dip-59673
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14862965
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 126418
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 651661

Footnotes

1. Mean = 105.460 meters (345.997 feet), Standard Deviation = 184.530 based on 87 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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