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Some authorities place the small non-biting flies belonging to the Dixidae and Chaoboridae as subfamilies (Dixinae and Chaoborinae) of the family Culicidae but in this book the classification given in the world catalogue of mosquitoes by Knight and Stone (1977) is followed, that is the family Culcidae contains only mosquitoes. There are some 3100 species of mosquitoes belonging to 34 genera arranged in three subfamilies, — Toxorhynchitinae, Anophelinae (anophelines) and Culicinae (culicines).
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Service, M.W. (1980). Introduction to the mosquitoes (Order Diptera: Family Culicidae): classification, morphology, life—cycle and control principles. In: A Guide to Medical Entomology. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16334-2_4
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