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Elephant Mosquitoes
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Elephant Mosquitoes

Toxorhynchites

Toxorhynchites, also called "elephant mosquito", or "mosquito eater" is a cosmopolitan genus of mosquitoes. The genus includes the largest known species of mosquito, and it is among the many kinds of mosquito that do not consume blood. The adults subsist on carbohydrate-rich materials, such as honeydew, or saps and juices from damaged plants, refuse, fruit, and nectar.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lynchiella

subgenusLynchiella

Toxorhynchites

subgenusToxorhynchites

Ankylorhynchus

subgenusAnkylorhynchus

Afrorhynchus

subgenusAfrorhynchus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 155464.