a slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae. The bite of the bloodsucking female can transmit a number of serious diseases including malaria and elephantiasis 蚊子
Culex, Anopheles, and other genera, family Culicidae 库蚊属,按蚊属及其他属,蚊科
语源
late 16th cent.: from Spanish and Portuguese, diminutive of mosca, from Latin musca 'fly'