单词 | stegomyia |
释义 | stegomyian. A mosquito of the genus formerly so called, now usually regarded as a sub-division of the genus Aedes, which includes tropical and subtropical species responsible for the transmission of yellow fever. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of genus Aedes or Stegomyia tiger-mosquito1835 Aedes1856 stegomyia1911 1911 A. W. Alcock Entomol. for Med. Officers v. 96 (heading) Genera of the Stegomyia type. 1915 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 10 July 326/2 The same result could have been obtained by inoculation with anopheles vaccine and stegomyia emulsion. 1920 Glasgow Herald 6 July 6/4 The success of General Gorgas's methods can be gauged..after a campaign extending over eight years against the stegomyia. 1932 Discovery Oct. 326/2 I [sc. Robert Ross] then examined a small Stegomyia. 1971 J. D. Gillett Mosquitos iii. 46 Other Stegomyia also at times glide through the water head-first. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1911 |
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