Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory

Welcome to Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory

This website, when fully developed, will be 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.

A hierarchical listing of principal mosquito taxa is located at the upper left corner of this page. 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.

The taxonomy pages 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 name in the Included Taxa field to open a separate page that contains taxonomic information associated with that name. All the data on the pages will be linked to the sources listed in a Bibliography. At this point, pages are only available for the family, subfamilies, tribes, genera and certain subgenera. New subgenus pages will be added periodically and the existing pages will be updated continuously.

The site will eventually contain descriptions and images of mosquito 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.

An up-to-date list of Valid Mosquito Species and the internal classification of genus Anopheles (Anopheles Classificaton) can be viewed under Resources in the left margin of this page. Each name in these lists will eventually be linked to an associated page. Resources will also eventually include a list of Synonymous Names, an Anatomical Glossary and a comprehensive Bibliography of cited references, with appropriate links.