Aedes albopictus: Asian Tiger Mosquito
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Scan day: 04 March 2014 UTC
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Asian tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus (Skuse) common name: Asian tiger mosquito (Skuse) (Insecta: Diptera: Culicidae) (Skuse), was first documented in the United States in Texas in 1985 (Sprenger and Wuithiranyagool 1986). A year later, the Asian tiger mosquito was found in Florida at a tire dump site near Jacksonville (O'Meara 1997). Since that time, this species has spread rapidly throughout the eastern states, including all of Florida's 67 counties (O'Meara 1997).
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| Page title: | Asian tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus (Skuse) |
| Keywords: | asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus Diptera Culicidae Leslie Rios James Maruniak |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |