Culicidae

family of nematoceran flies
Taxon taxon Q7367
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Culicidae

Summary

Culicidae is a taxon[1]. Culicidae ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,116 views/month, #632 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Culicidae's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Culicidae is classified at the rank of family[4].
  • Culicidae belongs to the parent taxon Culicoidea[5].
  • Culicidae is classified within Culicomorpha[6].
  • Culicidae's scientific name is Culicidae[7].
  • Culicidae is a type of Animalia[8].
  • Culicidae is a type of blood-sucking insect[9].
  • Culicidae's Commons category is recorded as Culicidae[10].
  • Culicidae's Unicode character is recorded as 🦟[11].
  • Culicidae comprises invertebrate proboscis[12].
  • Culicidae began on -99000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • Culicidae's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Culicidae[14].
  • Culicidae's Commons gallery is recorded as Culicidae[15].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[16].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[18].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia[19].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21].
  • Culicidae's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22].
  • Culicidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mosquitoes'}[23].
  • Culicidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'steekmuggen'}[24].
  • Culicidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'moustiques'}[25].
  • Culicidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'mosquitoes'}[26].
  • Culicidae is commonly known as {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Stechmücken'}[27].

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Classification

Culicidae's scientific name is Culicidae[7]. Culicidae is classified at the rank of family[4]. Recorded parent taxon include Culicoidea[5] and Culicomorpha[6]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Mosquitoes'}[23], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'steekmuggen'}[24], {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'moustiques'}[25], {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Stechmücken'}[27], {'lang': 'fr-ca', 'text': 'maringouin'}[28], and {'lang': 'lb', 'text': 'Mustiken'}[29].

Identifiers

Culicidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52134[30]. Culicidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7157[31]. Culicidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 473[32]. Culicidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3346[33]. Culicidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 125930[34].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Culicidae include The Mosquito[35], an electronic device[36]; P-270 Moskit[37], a missile model[38]; mosquito net[39]; Moustique[40], a newspaper[41], in Belgium[42], founded in 1924[43], headquartered in Brussels[44]; and Black Mosquito[45], a publishing house[46], in Germany[47], founded in 2003[48], headquartered in Flensburg[49].

Why It Matters

Culicidae ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,116 views/month, #632 of 195,241).[2] Culicidae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[50] Culicidae is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[51]

Entities named for Culicidae include The Mosquito[35], an electronic device[36]; P-270 Moskit[37], a missile model[38]; mosquito net[39]; Moustique[40], a newspaper[41], in Belgium[42], founded in 1924[43], headquartered in Brussels[44]; and Black Mosquito[45], a publishing house[46], in Germany[47], founded in 2003[48], headquartered in Flensburg[49].

References

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  2. [4] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  12. [31] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [34] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [32] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [33] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  25. [23] . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  26. [24] . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . wikidata.org.

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  1. [35] . wikidata.org. → on this site
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  3. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [40] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [45] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [44] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [48] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [50] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [51] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16h 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 Animalia, blood-sucking insect
    Instance of taxon
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