Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory

Welcome to Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory (MTI)

AIMS

The MTI is being developed to provide an up-to-date authoritative resource on the global diversity of family Culicidae. The primary objective is to provide a current taxonomic framework for the group that will contain information on the formal taxonomy and systematics of its members. New information is added periodically and existing information is updated continuously. What's New lists the information that has been added most recently.

NAVIGATION

A hierarchical listing of principal mosquito taxa is located at the upper left corner of this page under Culicidae Classification. Each taxon in the list is subordinate to the one above it; hence, the list progresses in order from family to genus and subgenus level, and will eventually progress to species level. Clicking on a name will display a page of taxonomic information about that taxon in this window and produce a list of subordinate taxa of the next lower rank, e.g. a click on subfamily Culicinae will display a page of information about the subfamily and generate an alphabetical list of tribes, and a click on a tribal name will display information about the tribe and produce an alphabetical list of subordinate genera. Click on the plus sign (+) beside a name to browse subordinate taxa. Information listed under Fossil Culicidae, Morphology and Resources is structured and accessed in the same manner. The Anatomical Glossary includes nine sectional glossaries which can be accessed independently or by links in the Overview.

CONTENT

Taxonomy pages for generic-level taxa contain information on the Name-bearing Type, Classification, Distribution, Phylogeny, Characteristics, Bionomics, Medical and Economic Importance, Important References and Included Taxa. When the website is more fully developed, it will be possible to click on an individual species name in the Included Taxa field to open a separate page that contains taxonomic information associated with that name. Pages are currently available for the family, subfamilies, tribes, genera and certain subgenera. The site will eventually contain information on species in an updated taxonomy. The data will be extracted from the most recent and authoritative taxonomic literature available for each taxon.

Please feel free to contact us with questions on Culicidae. We would particularly welcome advanced notification about new taxa, taxonomic changes and species information that could be used on the website.