Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The Yellow Fever Mosquito
Its Life History, Bionomics and Structure

This book brings together in a systematic way all that is known about Aëdes Aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito.

S. Rickard Christophers (Author)

9780521113021, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 June 2009

752 pages
28 x 21 x 3.8 cm, 1.66 kg

Aëdes Aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, is widely used as a laboratory type for research on the bionomics, structure and physiology of the mosquito and for many other research purposes, such as in the testing of insecticides, research on essential food requirements and genetical studies. The book brings together in a systematic way all that is known about this species. It presents, in a readily usable form, information scattered in a vast and diffuse literature and adds much from the author's own work. The scope of the book covers: the history of early research, a review of the species systematics, its distribution, natural enemies and parasites, its relation to disease and the measures taken in its control.

1. Historical
2. Systematic
3. Bionomical
4. Medical
5. Technique
6. The egg
7. Eclosion
8. embryology
9. The larva
10. The larval instars
11. The larva and its environment
12. Growth
13. The larva: internal structure
14. The larva: internal structure (continued)
15. The pupa
16. The pupa (continued)
17. The imago
18. The imago: external characters
19. The imago: external characters (continued)
20. The imago: food and feeding
21. The blood meal
22. Mating and oviposition
23. Flight
24. The imago: special senses and behaviour
25. Viability under different environmental conditions
26. The imago: internal structure
27. The imago: internal structure (continued)
28. The imago: the nervous system and retrocerebral complex
29. The imago: special sense organs
30. The imago: the excretory and reproductive systems
31. The imago: physiology
Index.

Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF], Molecular biology [PSD]