Culex
n.
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae , to which most of the North American species belong. Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying, as Culex sollicitans , which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast, and Culex pipiens , the common house mosquito, breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America. (For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes, see Anopheles , above). The yellow-fever mosquito is now placed in another genus, Stegomyia .
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