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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Arthropods > Insecta > Pterygota > Neoptera > Holometabola > Diptera > Nematocera > Culicomorpha > Culicidae > Aedes

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Aedes  

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  • mosquito; /microbiol /parasitol /virol permitted; do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111

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  • A genus of mosquitoes (CULICIDAE) frequently found in tropical and subtropical regions. YELLOW FEVER and DENGUE are two of the diseases that can be transmitted by species of this genus.

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