Aedes japonicus (Theobald)

Matsunaga, Janis N., Howarth, Francis G. & Kumashiro, Bernarr R., 2019, New State Records and Additions to the Alien Terrestrial Arthropod Fauna in the Hawaiian Islands, Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 51 (1), pp. 1-71 : 6

Aedes japonicus (Theobald)

New island record

Aedes japonicus has been established on Hawaii island since 2004 ( Larish and Savage 2005) and while a single individual was detected in a monitoring trap at Honolulu International Airport, Oahu in 2012 (Yang and Hasty 2013), this mosquito has not been collected from the field on other main islands until 2013 ( Magnacca 2015). In addition to Magnacca’s (2015) list of new island establishments on Oahu and Kauai, this single specimen collected at The Nature Conservancy’s Waikamoi Preserve on Haleakala, Maui is evidence of this species’ spread across the Hawaiian Islands.

Collection record: MAUI, Haleakala, Waikamoi Preserve , 8.X.2016, coll. M. Fukada, det. J.N. Matsunaga, XI.2016. Voucher at HDOA.