AnimalsOnly female mosquitoes bite: they need blood to make eggs, while both sexes feed on plant juices. This striped mosquito breeds in small pools of clean standing water around homes and spreads dengue and chikungunya. Emptying water containers every week helps to control it.
Quick facts
- Scientific name
- Aedes aegypti
- Group
- Invertebrates
- Diet
- Omnivore (eats plants and animals)
- Lives in
- Tropical and subtropical regions worldwide
- Habitat
- Near people and standing water
- A young one is called
- larva (wriggler)
- A group is called
- swarm
- Conservation status
- No category in our data
How it is classified
Scientists sort living things into groups within groups. Reading down, each step is a smaller group, ending with the species itself.
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Class Insecta
- Order Diptera
- Family Culicidae
- Genus Aedes
- Species Aedes aegypti
Classification follows the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Other reference works arrange some groups differently. How classification works.
Is it in danger?
No Red List category for the yellow fever mosquito was found in our data source. What the categories mean.