Aedes cordellieri is a sub-Saharan African species of mosquito suspected of being a vector of yellow fever.Yiau-Min Huang. 1986. Notes on the Aedes (Diceromyia) furcifer Group, with a Description of a New Species (Diptera: Culicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 88(4): 634-649; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/wr237.pdf . The species name honors Dr. Roger Cordellier, a former medical entomologist with Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (ORSTOM) in Ivory Coast, in recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of the mosquito fauna of Africa.
Bionomics Aedes cordellieri is found in West Africa (Ivory Coast), East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) and South Africa.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Aedes » Diceromyia » cordellieri Huang" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=15828, accessed 13 Feb 2016.
The eggs of the type species were obtained from a female collected while biting a human above ground level, in the evening, in a forest area at Dézidougou, M'Bahiakro, Centre Departement, Ivory Coast. In nature, immature stages of Ae. cordellieri have been collected from tree holes. Aedes cordellieri feeds readily on monkeys and humans through the summer until the onset of winter.
Medical importance Aedes cordellieri from eastern Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania) and South Africa (Natal) have been demonstrated to be capable of transmitting yellow fever virus through bites under laboratory conditions.
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