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Common house mosquito
Culex pipiens
Culex pipiens, commonly referred to as the common house mosquito, is a member of the order Diptera (Fly). House mosquitoes are some of the most common mosquitoes in the United States. More specifically, Culex pipiens is considered as the northern house mosquito, as it is the most common mosquito to the northern regions of the U.S. North of the 39th parallel north in the US, only C. pipiens are present, whereas south of the 36th parallel...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 130032.