Culex Linnaeus, 1758
(a genus of mosquitoes)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Culex pipiens agg. a group of closely similar mosquitoes					Species aggregate	2 subtaxa	11 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Genus	Culex (a genus of mosquitoes)
Family	CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats)
Superfamily	CULICOIDEA (mosquitoes, gnats, meniscus & phantom midges)
Infraorder	Culicomorpha (mosquitoes, gnats, midges & blackflies)
Suborder	NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
Order	DIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Culex is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Anon.		Eutaxa - electronic keys & reference collections	www.eutaxa.com
	Harbach, R.E.	1988	The mosquitoes of the subgenus Culex in southwestern Asia and Egypt (Diptera: Culicidae).	Contributions of the American Entomological Institute Vol 24 (1).

Culex (a genus of mosquitoes) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

CULICIDAE
(mosquitoes, gnats)

NEMATOCERA
(thread-horned flies, gnat)

DIPTERA
(two-winged flies)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Culex (a genus of mosquitoes)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Culex (a genus of mosquitoes)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Culex is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)