#3937 · 🪰 flies & mosquitoes
Asian Tiger Mosquito
🇳🇱 Tijgermug ·Aedes albopictus
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
Aedes albopictus ( Stegomyia albopicta ), from the mosquito (Culicidae) family, also known as (Asian) tiger mosquito or forest mosquito , is a mosquito native to the tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia; however, in the past few decades, this species has spread to many countries through the transport of goods and international travel. It is characterized by its black-and-white-striped legs, and small black-and-white-striped body.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 21,675 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse in 1894 (132 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Asian Tiger Mosquito
- Nederlands
- Tijgermug
- scientific name
- Aedes albopictus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Diptera
- family
- Culicidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,175
- sightings worldwide
- 21,675
- GBIF records in NL
- 243
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1894 by Frederick Arthur Askew Skuse
relatives· Culicidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62984, Wikidata Q477918, GBIF 1651430, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.