Culicidae

family of nematoceran flies
Taxon taxon Q7367
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Summary

Culicidae is a taxon[1]. Culicidae ranks in the top 0.32% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18,840 views/month, #632 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Culicoidea[4], Culicomorpha[5]
  • Taxon name: Culicidae[6]
  • Subclass of: Animalia[7], blood-sucking insect[8]
  • Commons category: Culicidae[9]
  • Unicode character: 🦟[10]
  • Has part(s): invertebrate proboscis[11]
  • Start time: -99000000-00-00T00:00:00Z[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Culicidae[13]
  • Commons gallery: Culicidae[14]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[15], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[17], Checklist of Diptera of the Czech Republic and Slovakia[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21]
  • Taxon common name: Mosquitoes[22], steekmuggen[23], moustiques[24], Stechmücken[25], maringouin[26], Mustiken[27], stikkmygg[28], komarji[29]
  • Permanent duplicated item: Mosquito[30]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[31], WikiProject Zika Corpus[32], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[33]

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Identifiers

Culicidae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 52134[34]. Culicidae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 7157[35]. Culicidae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 473[36]. Culicidae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3346[37]. Culicidae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 125930[38].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Culicidae include The Mosquito[39], an electronic device[40]; P-270 Moskit[41], a missile model[42]; mosquito net[43]; Moustique[44], a newspaper[45], in Belgium[46], founded in 1924[47], headquartered in Brussels[48]; and Black Mosquito[49], a publishing house[50], in Germany[51], founded in 2003[52], headquartered in Flensburg[53].

Why It Matters

Culicidae has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Culicidae is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

Entities named for Culicidae include The Mosquito[39], an electronic device[40]; P-270 Moskit[41], a missile model[42]; mosquito net[43]; Moustique[44], a newspaper[45], in Belgium[46], founded in 1924[47], headquartered in Brussels[48]; and Black Mosquito[49], a publishing house[50], in Germany[51], founded in 2003[52], headquartered in Flensburg[53].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [35] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [38] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [36] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [37] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . Belgian Species List. Retrieved . species.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
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Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [47] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [48] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [50] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [53] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C2831
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  2. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q292445
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  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → BjnrM
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  4. 16w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → mosquitoes
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: mosquitoes, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289954905|mosquitoes (#289954905)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0263613-komaroviti
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0263613-komaroviti, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259497|batch #259497]]"
  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Culicoidea, Culicomorpha
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, WikiProject Zika Corpus, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Subclass of → animal, blood-sucking insect
    Instance of → taxon
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 16482, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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