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Tribe Culicini

green eyed Mosquito - Culex pipiens - female

northern house mosquito - Culex pipiens - male

Field-collected specimen from CDC light trap - Culex restuans - female

Cool Weather (it is now, no real frosts yet) Mosquito. Culiseta incidens? - Culex

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Nematocera" (Non-Brachycera))

Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges)

Family Culicidae (Mosquitoes)

Tribe Culicini

Numbers

30 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1), ~800 spp. (of which ~770 are in Culex) in 4 genera worldwide(2)

Range

worldwide(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	The Culicidae (Diptera): a review of taxonomy, classification and phylogeny Harbach R.E. 2007. Zootaxa 1668: 591–638.

Contributed by v belov on 11 October, 2011 - 8:07am
Last updated 11 October, 2011 - 3:35pm

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