Mosquito
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"[H]istorian Timothy C. Winegard... estimates that mosquitoes have killed more people than any other single cause – fifty-two billion of us, nearly half of all humans who have ever lived.... Globalization is helping to spread a new generation of mosquito-borne illnesses once confined to the tropics, such as dengue... chikungunya and Zika... Meanwhile, climate change is... expanding the ranges in which mosquitoes and the diseases they carry can thrive."--Jarvis, Brooke, "Buzz Off: They've ravaged humanity and derailed history. And mosquitoes aren't finished yet", The New Yorker, 5 & 12 August 2019, pp. 69–71. |
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The mosquitoes are a family of small, midge-like flies: the Culicidae. Although a few species are harmless or even useful to humanity, most are a nuisance because they consume blood from living vertebrates, including humans. The females of many species of mosquitoes are blood eating pests. In feeding on blood, some of them transmit extremely harmful human and livestock diseases, such as malaria. Some authorities argue accordingly that mosquitoes are the most dangerous animals on Earth.
Subfamilies and genera
- Aedeomyia
- Aedes
- Armigeres
- Ayurakitia
- Borachinda
- Coquillettidia
- Culex
- Culiseta
- Deinocerites
- Eretmapodites
- Ficalbia
- Galindomyia
- Haemagogus
- Heizmannia
- Hodgesia
- Isostomyia
- Johnbelkinia
- Kimia
- Limatus
- Lutzia
- Malaya
- Mansonia
- Maorigoeldia
- Mimomyia
- Onirion
- Opifex
- Orthopodomyia
- Psorophora
- Runchomyia
- Sabethes
- Shannoniana
- Topomyia
- Toxorhynchites
- Trichoprosopon
- Tripteroides
- Udaya
- Uranotaenia
- Verrallina
