Culicidae
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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].