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Culicine Mosquitoes
Culicinae
The Culicinae are the most extensive subfamily of mosquitoes (Culicidae) and have species in every continent except Antarctica, but are highly concentrated in tropical areas. Mosquitoes are best known as parasites to many vertebrate animals and vectors for disease. They are holometabolous insects, and most species lay their eggs in stagnant water, to benefit their aquatic larval stage.
11 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first
Aedini
tribeAedini
Culicini
tribeCulicini
Culisetini
tribeCulisetini
Toxorhynchitini
tribeToxorhynchitini
Mansoniini
tribeMansoniini
Sabethini
tribeSabethini
Uranotaeniini
tribeUranotaeniini
Aedeomyiini
tribeAedeomyiini
Orthopodomyiini
tribeOrthopodomyiini
Ficalbiini
tribeFicalbiini
Hodgesiini
tribeHodgesiini
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Culicinae in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 357355.