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Culicidae

54 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Diptera › Culicidae

Toxorhynchites rutilus is a large North American mosquito species with distinct coloration and recurved proboscis.

Toxorhynchites splendens is a non-blood-feeding mosquito used to control dengue mosquitoes, found across most of the Old World outside Africa.

Toxorhynchites speciosus is a large Australian non-blood-feeding mosquito with predatory larvae used for biocontrol of pest mosquitoes.

Anopheles punctipennis, the woodland malaria mosquito, is a North American species that can vector human malaria parasites.

Anopheles walkeri is a freshwater swamp mosquito species with a multivoltine life cycle, active late in the day.

Anopheles quadrimaculatus, the common malaria mosquito, is a malaria vector found mainly in eastern and southeastern US.

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