Aedes aegypti | RIS-ky

Aedes aegypti

Linnaeus, 1762

Arthropoda » Diptera » Culicidae » Aedes aegypti

Common name (English)

Yellow fever mosquito

Common name (Greek)

Κουνούπι του κίτρινου πυρετού

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Establishment status

Establishment status detail

Alien:

Previously known to exist on the island until 1934 (Violaris et al. 2009).

Recently collected from Cyprus (2022). Its possible establishment and abundance are investigated.

First detection year

2022

Impacts

Transmission of disease

Pathway

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Hitchhikers on airplane – Air

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Container/bulk – Container

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Organic packing material – Org

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Vehicles – Veh

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Other means of transport – Other Transport

Pathway detail

Speculated (Demetriou pers. comm.)

References

Aziz M (1934) The Anopheline mosquitoes of Cyprus Cyprus Government Printing Office, 26 p.

Violaris M, Vasquez MI, Samanidou A, Wirth MC, Hadjivassilis A (2009) The mosquito fauna of the Republic of Cyprus: A revised list. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 25(2): 199–202.

https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/news/local/health-ministry-warns-of-yellow-fever-mosquitoes/

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-events/increasing-risk-mosquito-borne-diseases-eueea-following-spread-aedes-species

Yetismis K, Erguler K, Angelidou I, Yetismis S, Fawcett J, Foroma E, Jarraud N, Ozbel Y, Martinou AF (2022) Establishing the Aedes watch out network, the first island-wide mosquito citizenscience initiative in Cyprus within the framework of the Mosquitoes Without Borders project. Management of Biological Invasions 13(4): 798–808. https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2022.13.4.14