Aedes sticticus is an uncommon mosquito, although the species can be abundant along river floodlands.

Aedes sticticus has a very patchy but wide distribution in temperate parts of Europe, Asia and North America.

It has an episodic and patchy distribution in Iowa and Wisconsin.

"Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae), based on morphological characters of all life stages".

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.