1) Culicidae 2) Nematocera 3) Pests 
• (pl. ) of Mosquito
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mosquitoes, mosquitos (muh SKEE tohz) Any of the gnatlike insects of the family Culicidae; many are bloodsucking and are vectors of human and animal diseases; others are venomous. The word vector is a reference to a carrier, usually an insect or other arthropod, that transmits the causative organisms of disease from infected to noninfected individu...