#mosquito two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
supertype: dipterous_insect__dipterousinsect__two-winged_insects__dipteran__dipteron insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
subtype: gnat.mosquito yellow-fever_mosquito Asian_tiger_mosquito anopheline malarial_mosquito common_mosquito Culex_quinquefasciatus
member of: family_Culicidae__Culicidae mosquitoes
member of: suborder_Nematocera__Nematocera mosquitoes; fungus gnats; crane flies; gnats; sand flies
member of: order_Diptera__Diptera a large order of insects having a single pair of wings and sucking or piercing mouths; includes true flies and mosquitoes and gnats and crane flies
member of: class_Insecta__Insecta__Hexapoda__class_Hexapoda insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species
member of: phylum_Arthropoda__Arthropoda jointed-foot invertebrates: arachnids; crustaceans; insects; millipedes; centipedes
member of: kingdom_Animalia__Animalia__animal_kingdom taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animals
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