Kauaʻi record · KCA-IA-00495
Yellow Fever Mosquito
Aedes aegypti
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About Yellow Fever Mosquito
Aedes aegypti is retained here as a historical Kauaʻi record, not a confirmed current island population.
Natural history and identification
Aedes aegypti is retained here as a historical Kauaʻi record, not a confirmed current island population. A historical review reports that, by 1959, it had not been found on Kauaʻi since 1945. Later statewide entomological surveys found A. aegypti on Hawaiʻi Island while finding A. albopictus on Kauaʻi and several other islands. These are distinct mosquito species; a report of one cannot be used to confirm the other.
Kauaʻi occurrence and evidence
Atlas occurrence category: Historic / extirpated. Historical review states Aedes aegypti had not been found on Kauaʻi since 1945; current Hawaiʻi sources restrict known populations to Hawaiʻi Island.
Evidence limits
The cited observations describe the evidence currently available for this account. They do not establish a complete life history or a measured current Kauaʻi population trend.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Aedes aegypti
- Common names
- Yellow Fever Mosquito
- Family
- Culicidae
- Order
- Diptera
- Record type
- species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Historic / extirpated
- Origin
- Introduced — historical
- Conservation status
- Not assessed
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal description
- Aedes aegypti is retained here as a historical Kauaʻi record, not a confirmed current island population.