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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

  1. Mississippi Morbidity Report 9(12) July 1991
  2. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995