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Aedes australis

Aedes australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Aedes
Subgenus: Stegomyia
Species: A. australis
Binomial name
Aedes australis

Aedes australis is a brackish water mosquito species from the genus Aedes subgenus Halaedes. This was first confronted in New Zealand in 1961.

The species breeds in littoral rock and brackish pools just above the tide line and remains close to their breeding habitats.

The eggs of this species are rhomboidal in both ventral and dorsal view.



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