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Asian tiger mosquito

species of insect
Taxon taxon Q477918
Asian tiger mosquito
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Summary

Asian tiger mosquito is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.48% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,784 views/month, #942 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • Parent taxon: Aedes[4], Aedes (Stegomyia)[5]
  • Taxon name: Aedes albopictus[6]
  • Commons category: Aedes albopictus[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aedes albopictus[8]
  • Commons gallery: Aedes albopictus[9]
  • Original combination: Culex albopictus[10]
  • Taxon synonym: Stegomyia albopicta[11]
  • Short name: A. albopictus[12]
  • Taxon common name: Asian Tiger Mosquito[13], 白線斑蚊[14], mosquitu tigre[15], azijski tigrasti komar[16]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Zika Corpus[17]
  • Invasive to: Tuvalu[18], Barcelona[19]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Invasion Biology[20]
  • Sequenced genome URL: https://metazoa.ensembl.org/Aedes_albopictus[21]

Body

Identifiers

Asian tiger mosquito's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 62984[22]. Asian tiger mosquito's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7160[23]. Asian tiger mosquito's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 764100[24]. Asian tiger mosquito's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1651430[25]. Asian tiger mosquito's ITIS TSN is recorded as 126244[26].

Why It Matters

Asian tiger mosquito has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

Related Entities

Tuvalu

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [23] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [26] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [25] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Catalogue of Life in Taiwan. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . sabencia.net. sabencia.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [19] ↑ . Host-feeding patterns of native Culex pipiens and invasive Aedes albopictus mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in urban zones from Barcelona, Spain. wikidata.org.
  23. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . Ensembl Genomes. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Debessis · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Invasive to → Tuvalu, Barcelona
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon synonym → Stegomyia albopicta
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Zika Corpus
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Original combination → Culex albopictus
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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