culex

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noun type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface

Borrowed from Latin culex (“gnat”).

Robuchon noted that the Culex mosquito disappears on entering this river: but there are others; one, a kind of Tabano in miniature, is called the Maringunios. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
The typical species of the genus Culex, to which the mosquito belongs, is Culex pipiens, described by Linnæus, and there are already over thirty North American species of this genus described in various works. — Our Common Insects: A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses, A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

genus Culex

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