Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Culicoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Antliophora
Ordo: Diptera
Subordo: Nematocera
Infraordo: Culicomorpha
Superfamilia: Culicoidea

Familia: Culicidae
Subfamiliae (3): Anophelinae Culicinae – †Burmaculicinae

Overview of genera (44 + 3†)

Aedeomyia  Aedes  Anopheles  Armigeres  Ayurakitia  Bironella  Borichinda  Chagasia  Coquillettidia  Culex  Culiseta  Deinocerites  Eretmapodites  Ficalbia  Galindomyia  Haemagogus  Heizmannia  Hodgesia  Isostomyia  Johnbelkinia  Kimia  Limatus  Lutzia  Malaya  Mansonia  Maorigoeldia  Mimomyia  Nyctomyia  Onirion  Opifex  Orthopodomyia  Psorophora  Runchomyia  Sabethes  Shannoniana  Topomyia  Toxorhynchites  Trichoprosopon  Tripteroides  Udaya  Uranotaenia  Verrallina  Wyeomyia  Zeugnomyia Aetheapnomyia Burmaculex Eoaedes

[source: Catalogue of Life: 2013 Annual Checklist, except fossils, minus (1) Tipula
; plus (1) Nyctomyia
]

Name

Culicidae Meigen, 1818

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Additional references

Vernacular names

Akan: Ntontom
অসমীয়া: মহ
беларуская: Камары
বাংলা: মশা
català: Mosquit
Deutsch: Stechmücke
eʋegbe: Emu
English: Mosquitoes
suomi: Hyttyset
français: Moustique
hrvatski: Komarci
hts: Xhuhi-ko
magyar: Szúnyogfélék
հայերեն: Մոծակներ
日本語: カ科
Līvõ kēļ: Knoušõļd
polski: Komar
davvisámegiella: Čuoikkat
Kiswahili: mbu
Tagalog: Lamok
Türkçe: Sivrisinek
vèneto: Sginsała
中文: 蚊科
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