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Culicomorpha
Sign in to saveThe Culicomorpha are an infraorder of Nematocera, including mosquitoes, black flies, and several extant and extinct families of insects. They originated 176 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic period. There are phylogenetic patterns that are used to interpret bionomic features such as differences in the nature of blood-feeding by adult females, daytime or nighttime feeding by adult females, and occurrence of immature stages in aquatic habitats.
Species
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Infraorder
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderDiptera
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Research
59,855 papers- Mosquito-capsid interactions contribute to flavivirus vector specificity.Nature · 2026
- World Catalogue of the family Thaumaleidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha).Zootaxa · 2022
- Mitochondrial Genomes Provide Insights into the Phylogeny of Culicomorpha (Insecta: Diptera).International journal of molecular sciences · 2019
- Comparative mitogenome analyses of twelve non-biting flies and provide insights into the phylogeny of Chironomidae (Diptera: Culicomorpha).Scientific reports · 2023
- Sensory mechanisms for the shift from phytophagy to haematophagy in mosquitoes.Current opinion in insect science · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Classification
- Extinct families
- References
The Culicomorpha are an infraorder of Nematocera, including mosquitoes, black flies, and several extant and extinct families of insects. They originated 176 million years ago, in the Early Jurassic period. There are phylogenetic patterns that are used to interpret bionomic features such as differences in the nature of blood-feeding by adult females, daytime or nighttime feeding by adult females, and occurrence of immature stages in aquatic habitats.
Most adult females lay their eggs on bodies of water. Some are restricted to very clean waters, but others can tolerate highly polluted environments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Culicomorpha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.