Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae > Culiseta > Culiseta melanura

Culiseta melanura (black-tailed mosquito)

Synonyms: Culex melanurus

Attributes

Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Temporary Pools, Brackish Water
Diet [1]  Carnivore

Prey / Diet

Equus caballus (horse)[2]
Homo sapiens (man)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0