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Coquillettidia
Sign in to saveCoquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Coquillettidia is referenced by 51 other articles, and connects out to Culicinae, Culiseta and Toxorhynchites.
It sits within the topics Coquillettidia, Mosquito genera and Taxa named by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr..
Its subject is documented across 13 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Cattail Mosquito
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
- FamilyCulicidae
Coquillettidia este un gen de țânțari din familia Culicidae.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 115
- Family
- Culicidae
- Collections
- INDRE-SSA, NMV, CASC
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, United States
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- Coquillettidia
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Bionomics
- Medical importance
- Species
- Subgenus (Coquillettidia) Dyar, 1905
- Subgenus (Austromansonia) Belkin, 1968
- Subgenus (Rhynchotaenia) Brèthes, 1910
- Uncertain
- See also
- References
- External links
Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia. The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.
The genus comprises three subgenera, Austromansonia, Coquillettidia, and Rhynochotaenia, and 57 species, of which Coquillettidia perturbans is perhaps the best known.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Coquillettidia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.