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Culex
A genus of mosquitoes including over 2000 species. Largely tropical, but worldwide in distribution. They are vectors of a number of diseases in humans & animals (mammals & birds, wild & domestic).
Specific
Culex fatigans
Culex nigripalpus (house mosquito)
Culex pipiens
Culex tarsalis
General
Culicidae; mosquito
Properties
KINGDOM: animal
PHYLUM: arthropod
ORGANISM-CLASS: INSECTA
ORDER: diptera
FAMILY: Culicidae
GENUS: Culex
References
- Mississippi Morbidity Report 9(12) July 1991
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995