Toxorhynchites rutilus

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Toxorhynchites rutilus
Elephant Mosquito - Toxorhynchites rutilus, Meadowwood Farm SRMA, Mason Neck, Virginia.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Toxorhynchites
Species:
T. rutilus
Binomial name
Toxorhynchites rutilus
(Coquillett, 1896)

Toxorhynchites rutilus, known generally as the elephant mosquito or treehole predatory mosquito, is a species of mosquito in the family Culicidae.[1][2][3]

Elephant mosquito, Toxorhynchites rutilus

Subspecies[]

These two subspecies belong to the species Toxorhynchites rutilus:

  • Toxorhynchites rutilus rutilus
  • Toxorhynchites rutilus septentrionalis

References[]

  1. ^ "Toxorhynchites rutilus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Toxorhynchites rutilus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.

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