tiger mosquito

English

Noun

tiger mosquito (plural tiger mosquitos or tiger mosquitoes)

1. Any mosquito of the species Aedes albopictus (especially) or Aedes polynesiensis.
   • 2023 September 1, “‘A first in Paris’: city fumigates for tiger mosquitoes as tropical pests spread, bringing disease”, in The Guardian‎^[1], sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:

     Health authorities in Paris have fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid advance through northern Europe is thought to have been accelerated by climate change.

Hyponyms

• (mosquito): Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), Polynesian tiger mosquito (Aedes polynesiensis)

Translations

tiger mosquito

• French: moustique tigre (fr) m
• German: Tigermücke f
• Italian: zanzara tigre f
• Sicilian: zanzara trighi f
• Spanish: mosquito tigre m

References

• tiger mosquito on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aedes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Aedes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons