CULICIDAE
(mosquitoes, gnats)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Aedes
a genus of mosquitoes
Genus 1 ident. refs
Culex
a genus of mosquitoes
Genus 2 subtaxa 11 images 3 ident. refs
Culex pipiens agg.
a group of closely similar mosquitoes
Female (Click to open)
 		Species aggregate 2 subtaxa 11 images 1 ident. refs
Ochlerotatus nigrinus
a mosquito
Species 1 ident. refs
Ochlerotatus punctor
a mosquito
Pupa (Click to open)
 		Species 51 images
Ochlerotatus sticticus
a mosquito
Species 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyCULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats)
SuperfamilyCULICOIDEA (mosquitoes, gnats, meniscus & phantom midges)
InfraorderCulicomorpha (mosquitoes, gnats, midges & blackflies)
SuborderNEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies, gnat)
OrderDIPTERA (two-winged flies)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Anon. Eutaxa - electronic keys & reference collections www.eutaxa.com
Austen, E.E. 1906 *** Illustrations of British blood-sucking flies ***(Superseded) 74pp, British Museum (Natural History)
Coe, R.L., Freeman, P. & Mattingley, P.F. 1950 *** Diptera: Nematocera: families Tipulidae to Chironomidae ***(Superseded) Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol IX. Part 2, 216pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
Cranston, P.S., Ramsdale, C.D., Snow, K.R. & White, G.B. 1987 Keys to the adults, male hypopygia, fourth-instar larvae and pupae of the British Mosquitoes (Culicidae) with notes on their ecology and medical importance Scientific Publications, No 48, 152pp, Freshwater Biological Association
Lang, W.D. 1920 *** A handbook of British mosquitoes ***(Superseded) 125pp, British Museum
Natvig, L.R. 1948 Contributions to the knowledqe of the Danish and Fennoscandian mosquitoes: culicini Norsk. Ent. Tidskr. Suppl. I.
Savory, T.H. 1955 *** The World of Small Animals ***(Superseded) 160pp, University of London Press
() Snow, K.R. 1990 Mosquitoes Naturalists' Handbooks, 14, 66pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for CULICIDAE (mosquitoes, gnats)
Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

Photographs from other photographers are used with permission but not included under the above CC licence.

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)