mosquito

family of nematoceran flies

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
taxon
Has part(s)
invertebrate proboscis[9]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Invasion Biology
P14541
BjnrM
Permanent duplicated item
Mosquito[26]
Start time
-99000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[10]
Taxon common name
Mosquitoes, steekmuggen, moustiques, mosquitoes, Stechmücken, maringouin, Mustiken, stikkmygg, komarji[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
Taxon name
Culicidae[7]
Taxon rank
family[4]
Unicode character
🦟[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en mosquito family en Culicidae en mosquitoes en mosquito ar كيوليسيدي ar بعوضة الأنوفيلس الغامبية ar بعوضيات cs komárovití cs komáři cs Culicidae cs komár da stikmyg da Culicidae de Culicidae de Stechmücken de Moskito el Κουνούπι en-gb Culicidae es mosquito fa پشه
🔖 Identifiers · 76
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85087477
GND ID
4182994-3
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mosquito 2007-2.jpg ↗
ADW taxon ID
Culicidae
Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
1814
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/3242
Australian Faunal Directory ID
Culicidae
BBC News topic ID
c3499gyr535t
BNCF Thesaurus ID
1495
BOLD Systems taxon ID
1730
Banglapedia ID (Bengali)
মশা
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Belgian Species List ID
57517
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119732713
Biblissima authority ID
1933–34 Ligue Magnus season
BioLib taxon ID
17369
BugGuide taxon ID
169
Catalogue of Life ID
CCYMV
DeCS ID
9225
Dewey Decimal Classification
595.772
Dyntaxa ID
2001298
EPPO Code
1CULIF
Encyclopaedia Beliana ID
komarovite
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
484349
Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
E0018446
Encyclopedia of Life ID
473
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/mosquito-insect
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
moustique
Fauna Europaea ID
11650
Fossilworks taxon ID
138308
Freebase ID
/m/09f96
GBIF taxon ID
3346
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
mosquit-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0124948
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
stikkmygg
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2114024
Harper's tag
mosquitoes
IMDb keyword
mosquito
INaturalist taxon ID
52134
IRMNG ID
101749
ITIS TSN
125930
Interlingual Index ID
i47048
Invasive Species Compendium Datasheet ID
106720
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
mosquitos
KBpedia ID
Mosquito
Krugosvet article (archived)
biologiya/komary
Lex ID
stikmyg
MeSH descriptor ID
D009033
NALT ID
4448
NBIC scientific name ID
20930
NBN System Key
NBNSYS0000040182
NCBI taxonomy ID
7157
NDL Authority ID
00564354
NL CR AUT ID
ph121780
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007546050405171
Nederlands Soortenregister ID
150614
New York Times topic ID
subject/mosquitoes
New Zealand Organisms Register ID
83783aab-eef4-432f-acb5-9c17a8e155b0
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
630453
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3924248
Open Tree of Life ID
269670
Personality Database profile ID
50852
SVKKL authority ID
0263613-komaroviti
Topic's main category
Category:Culicidae
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10640927
UK Parliament thesaurus ID
455054
UMLS CUI
C0026584
VerbaAlpina ID
C2831
Vikidia article ID
es:Mosquito
WoRMS-ID for taxa
150945
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
02202850-n
YSO ID
16482

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🔗 Connections
← Parent taxon 26
Named after 5
Described by source 3
On focus list of Wikimedia project 2
Parent taxon 2
← Field of work 2
Instance of 1
Subclass of 1
Subtypes 1
Taxon rank 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Class of object(s) of occurrence 1
← Has immediate cause 1
← SNARC ID 1
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Summary

mosquito is a taxon[1]. mosquito is a type of Animalia[2] and blood-sucking insect[3].

Body

Discovery and Description

Things named for mosquito include The Mosquito[30], an electronic device[31]; P-270 Moskit[32], a missile model[33]; mosquito net[34]; Moustique[35], a newspaper[36], in Belgium[37], founded in 1924[38], headquartered in Brussels[39]; and Black Mosquito[40], a publishing house[41], in Germany[42], founded in 2003[43], headquartered in Flensburg[44].

Why It Matters

Entities named for mosquito include The Mosquito[30], an electronic device[31]; P-270 Moskit[32], a missile model[33]; mosquito net[34]; Moustique[35], a newspaper[36], in Belgium[37], founded in 1924[38], headquartered in Brussels[39]; and Black Mosquito[40], a publishing house[41], in Germany[42], founded in 2003[43], headquartered in Flensburg[44].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  1. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [39] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [41] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [43] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    VerbaAlpina ID → C2831
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ VerbaAlpina ID: C2831, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1786955435161"
  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → 1933–34 Ligue Magnus season
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q292445, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → BjnrM
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → mosquitoes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: mosquitoes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954905|mosquitoes (#289954905)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 20w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0263613-komaroviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: 0263613-komaroviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  6. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Culicoidea, Culicomorpha
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject Zika Corpus, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → animal, blood-sucking insect
    Instance of → taxon
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ YSO ID: 16482, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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