{{Short description|Mosquito in the family Culicidae}} {{Speciesbox | image = Aedes mitchellae.jpg | genus = Aedes | parent = Aedes (Ochlerotatus) | species = mitchellae | authority = Dyar, 1905 }}
'''''Aedes mitchellae''''' mosquitoes were originally collected in southern Georgia and Florida in 1905 by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr.<ref name="HGD1905">H. G. Dyar. 1905. A new mosquito. ''Journal of the New York Entomological Society'' 13: 74.</ref> The species' range extends through the coastal plains from the southeastern United States, north to New York and west to New Mexico with the greatest abundance in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains.<ref name="C&L">S. J. Carpenter and W. J. LaCasse. 1955. ''Mosquitoes of North America (North of Mexico)''. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. Pp. 204-205; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/016800-0.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314115919/http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/016800-0.pdf |date=2016-03-14 }}, accessed 1 Feb 2016.</ref>
==Bionomics== The adults, which resemble ''Aedes sollicitans'',<ref name="HGD1905"/> are frequently captured in light traps.<ref name="C&L"/> Adult females have been characterized as "severe biters",<ref name="C&L"/> implying significance as a potential vector of arboviral diseases.
Larvae develop in fresh water in temporary rain-filled pools such as recently dug holes, puddles, temporary pools, and ditches, sometimes with emergent vegetation.<ref name="HGD1905"/><ref name="C&L"/> In the extreme south they are reportedly found throughout the year following rains.<ref name="C&L"/>
==Medical importance== ''Aedes mitchellae'' is a suspected vector of Tensaw virus<ref name="CSCJW">{{cite journal |last1=Chamberlain |first1=R. W. |last2=Sudia |first2=W. D. |last3=Coleman |first3=P. H. |last4=Johnston |first4=J. G. |last5=Work |first5=T. H. |title=Arbovirus isolations from mosquitoes collected in Waycross, Georgia, 1963, during an outbreak of equine encephalitis |journal=American Journal of Epidemiology |date=1969 |volume=89 |issue=1 |pages=82–88 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120918}}</ref> and secondary vector of Eastern equine encephalitis.<ref name="H&R">Zdenek Hubálek and Ivo Rudolf. 2011. ''Microbial Zoonoses and Sapronoses''. Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York: Springer. p. 135; e-{{ISBN|978-90-481-9657-9}}, DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-9657-9.</ref>
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mitchellae Category:Flies of North America Category:Insects described in 1905 Category:Taxa named by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr.
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