stegomyia

/ ˌstɛɡəˈmaɪə /

noun

1. a former name for aedes

Word History and Origins

Origin of stegomyia¹

C19: from Greek stegos roof + -myia, from muia a fly

Example Sentences

The stegomyia mosquitoes are tropical and subtropical, but they can live as far north as Philadelphia and even farther.

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The stegomyia flies and bites in the early afternoon and again at night, the anopheles flies and bites after sunset.

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The Stegomyia mosquito is the agent of yellow fever inoculation.

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The Cuban coast was uninterruptedly full of infection, and the danger of an outbreak in each year was never absent, until the work of the United States army in 1901-1902 conclusively proved that this disease, though ineradicable by the most extreme sanitary measures, based on the accepted theory of its origin as a filth-disease, could be eradicated entirely by removing the possibility of inoculation by the Stegomyia mosquito.

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The mosquitos include the Culex or ordinary kind, the Anopheles, which carry malarial fever, and the Stegomyia, a striped white and black mosquito which carries yellow-fever.

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