Culex - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: culexCulex
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae to which most of the North American species belong Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying as Culex sollicitans which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast and Culex pipiens the common house mosquito breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes see Anopheles above The yellow fever mosquito is now placed in another genus Stegomyia...
Gnat
A blood sucking dipterous fly of the genus Culex undergoing a metamorphosis in water The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals These are wanting in the males In America they are generally called mosquitoes See Mosquito...
Mosquito
Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera The females have a proboscis containing within the sheathlike labium six fine sharp needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood These bites when numerous cause in many persons considerable irritation and swelling with some pain The larvaelig and pupaelig called wigglers are aquatic...
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