acrodendrophily

English

Etymology

acro- (“tip”) +‎ dendro- (“tree”) +‎ -phily (“liking, tendency”). Coined by Garnham et al. in 1946.[1][2]

Noun

acrodendrophily (uncountable)

  1. (zoology, usually of mosquitos) The tendency of an animal to inhabit or frequent treetops.

References
  1. PCC Garnham, JO Harper, RB Highton (1946) “The mosquitos of the Kaimosi Forest, Kenya Colony, with special reference to yellow fever”, in Bulletin of entomological research‎, volume 36, number 4, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 487
  2. R. Killick-Kendrick (2012 December 2) Rodent Malaria‎, Elsevier, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42: “Acrodendrophily is a term first used by Garnham et al. (1945) to describe the “tendency that is shown by certain sylvan mosquitos for haunting tree-tops”.”
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