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Asian tiger mosquito

n :  a black-and-white striped Asian mosquito of the genus Aedes (A. albopictus) that transmits the causative viruses of several diseases (as dengue and Japanese B encephalitis) in Asia and that has been introduced into the U.S. - called also tiger mosquito  .
 
 

 
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