mosquito

1. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (synset 102202850)
   is a type of: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
   subtypes:

   • gnat - (British usage) mosquito
   • aedes aegypti, yellow-fever mosquito - mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue
   • aedes albopictus, asian tiger mosquito - striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases
   • anopheline - any mosquito of the genus Anopheles
   • malaria mosquito, malarial mosquito - transmits the malaria parasite
   • common mosquito, culex pipiens - common house mosquito
   • culex fatigans, culex quinquefasciatus - widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms
   belongs to: culicidae, family culicidae - mosquitoes

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