Aedes apicoargenteus is an African mosquito species, first described as Stegomyia apicoargentea from specimens collected in Ashanti, Ghana.F. V. Theobald. 1910. Five new Culicidae from Ashanti. Annual Magazine of Natural History 8(5):373-378; 373-374; http://direct.biostor.org/reference/73113 .
Bionomics
Adults have been collected along bush-paths in bush habitat near Obuasi and Kumasi, Ghana. Distribution includes Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanganyika, Togo, and Uganda.Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. Aedes (Stegomyia) apicoargenteus Theobald, Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/taxon_descr.aspx?ID=17760, accessed 5 Feb 2016.
Medical importance
Adult Aedes apicoargenteus are human-biters, and vectors of Zika virus, the causative agent of Zika fever.
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