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  2. Aedes aegypti - Wikipedia

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    Male (left) and female (center and right) Ae. aegypti E.A. Goeldi, 1905 Aedes aegypti is a 4-to-7-millimetre-long (5 ⁄ 32 to 35 ⁄ 128 in), dark mosquito which can be recognized by white markings on its legs and a marking in the form of a lyre on the upper surface of its thorax.

  3. Anopheles - Wikipedia

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    Anopheles (/ ə ˈ n ɒ f ɪ l iː z /) is a genus of mosquito first described by the German entomologist J. W. Meigen in 1818, and are known as nail mosquitoes and marsh mosquitoes. [1] Many such mosquitoes are vectors of the parasite Plasmodium , a genus of protozoans that cause malaria in birds , reptiles , and mammals , including humans.

  4. Mosquito - Wikipedia

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    Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive-ito) [2] is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. [3] Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.

  5. Here’s the truth about this highly aggressive, invasive ...

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    A female mosquito may bite the same person several times or move from person to person before the urge to feed on blood is satiated, according to the Maryland Department of Agriculture ...

  6. List of mosquito genera - Wikipedia

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    There are 112 genera of mosquitoes, containing approximately 3,500 species. [1]Human malaria is transmitted only by females of the genus Anopheles.Of the approximately 430 Anopheles species, while over 100 are known to be able to transmit malaria to humans, only 30–40 commonly do so in nature.

  7. Culex restuans - Wikipedia

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    Culex restuans is a medium-sized brown mosquito, with adult female wing length ranging from 4 to 4.4mm. [7] It is occasionally called the "white-dotted mosquito", referring to two white dots sometimes found on the dorsal scutum. [8]

  8. Here’s How to Tell the Difference Between a Chigger Bite and ...

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    Mosquitoes are out for blood, but only female mosquitoes bite. “Females bite because they require blood to produce eggs,” says Green. ... which releases compounds called histamines to battle ...

  9. Anautogeny - Wikipedia

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    A female Anopheles minimus mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host to support its anautogenous reproduction.. In entomology, anautogeny is a reproductive strategy in which an adult female insect must eat a particular sort of meal (generally vertebrate blood) before laying eggs in order for her eggs to mature. [1]