WRBU: Aedes vexans

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articulatus Rondani
- 1872:30 (Culex)
- Type-loc: Italy (LU)
eruthrosops Theobald
- 1910c:299 (F*; Culicada)
- Type-loc: Trincomalee, Ceylon (BM)
- Knight and Hull 1953:463 (syn.)
euochrus Howard, Dyar and Knab
- 1917:716 (F)
- Type-loc: Popcum, British Columbia, Canada (USNM)
malariae Grassi
- 1898:168 (M; Culex)
- Type-loc: Italy (LU)
minuta Theobald
- 1907:338 (F*; Culicada)
- Type-loc: India (BM)
montcalmi Blanchard
- 1905:307 (nom. nov. for sylvestris Theobald, non silvestris Ross 1898; Culex).
niger Theobald
- 1913b:164 (A; Culex nocturnus var.)
- Type-loc: Canala, New Caledonia (B)
- Reinert 1973e:66 (syn.)
parvus Macquart
- 1834:36 (Culex)
- Type-loc: Bordeaux, [Gironde], France (NE)
sudanensis Theobald
- 1911c:154 (M*, F*; Culex)
- Type-loc: Sudan (BM)
- Edwards 1941:195 (syn.)
- White 1975:309 (syn.; lectotype desig.)
sylvestris Theobald
- 1901a:406 (M*, F*; Culex)
- Type-loc: Rondeau Provincial Park, Kent Co., and Lake Simcoe, Ontario; Stony Mt., Manitoba, Canada (BM)

Immatures are found in unshaded fresh water flood pools in secondary scrub, but have also been collected in ditches, swamps, rice fields, and elephant foot prints. Habitats usually have little aquatic vegetation or algae. Females are night biters and readily feed on man and cattle (Reinert 1973).