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=== Phylogeny ===

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Mosquitoes are members of a [[family (biology)|family]] of the [[Fly|true flies (order Diptera)]]: the Culicidae (from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|culex}}, [[Genitive case|genitive]] {{lang|la|culicis}}, meaning "midge" or "gnat").<ref name="isbn0-398-06179-3">{{cite book |last=Jaeger |first=Edmund C. |author-link=Edmund Jaeger |title=A Source-Book of Biological Names and Terms |publisher=Thomas |location=Springfield, Ill |year=1959 }}</ref> They are members of the infraorder [[Culicomorpha]] and superfamily [[Culicoidea]]. The phylogenetic tree is based on the FLYTREE project.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Yeates |first1=David K. |last2=Meier |first2=Rudolf |last3=Wiegmann |first3=Brian |title=Phylogeny of True Flies (Diptera): A 250 Million Year Old Success Story in Terrestrial Diversification |url=http://www.inhs.illinois.edu/research/flytree/flyphylogeny/ |website=Flytree |publisher=Illinois Natural History Survey |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228210535/http://inhs.illinois.edu/research/flytree/flyphylogeny/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 December 2015 |access-date=24 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yeates |first1=David K. |last2=Weigmann |first2=Brian M. |last3=Courtney |first3=Greg W. |last4=Meier |first4=Rudolf |last5=Lambkins |first5=Christine |last6=Pape |first6=Thomas |title=Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: Two decades of progress and prospects |year=2007 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1668 |pages=565–590 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.27 }}</ref>

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|label1=[[Diptera]]
|sublabel1= (true flies)
|1={{clade 
   |1={{clade 
      |1=[[Ptychopteromorpha]] (phantom and primitive crane-flies) [[File:Ptychoptera contaminata male Walker 1856 plate-XXVIII.png|70px]]
      |label2=[[Culicomorpha]] 
      |2={{clade
         |1=[[Chironomidae]] (non-biting midges) [[File:Chironomidae indet. (Chironomidae) (Unidentified Non-biting Midge) - (male imago), Arnhem, the Netherlands - 2.jpg|70px]]
         |2={{clade
            |1=Simulioidea (blackflies and biting midges) [[File:CSIRO ScienceImage 11052 Biting midge on human skin (cropped).jpg|60px]]
            |label2=[[Culicoidea]]
            |2={{clade
               |1=[[Dixidae]] (meniscus midges) [[File:Dixa nebulosa adult John Curtis British Entomology 409.png|70px]]
               |2={{clade
                  |1=[[Corethrellidae]] (frog-biting midges)
                  |2={{clade
                     |1=[[Chaoboridae]] (phantom midges) [[File:Chaoborus crystallinus male as Corethra plumicornis (Walker Insecta Britanica Vol 3 page 397 plate XXV).png|60px]]
                     |2='''Culicidae''' [[File:Stegomyia fasciata.jpg|100px]]
                     }}
                  }}
               }}
            }}
         }}
      }}
   |2={{clade
      |1=other midges and gnats [[File:Isoneuromyia annandalei.jpg|70px]]
      |2=all other flies, inc. [[Brachycera]] [[File:Syrphidae icon.jpg|70px]]
      }}
   }}
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The two subfamilies of mosquitoes are [[Anophelinae]], containing three genera and approximately 430 species, and [[Culicinae]], which contains 11 tribes, 108 genera and 3,046 species. Kyanne Reidenbach and colleagues analysed mosquito [[phylogenetics]] in 2009, using both nuclear DNA and morphology of 26 species. They note that Anophelinae is confirmed to be rather basal, but that the deeper parts of the tree are not well resolved.<ref name="Reidenbach Cook Bertone Harbach 2009">{{cite journal |last1=Reidenbach |first1=Kyanne R. |last2=Cook |first2=Shelley |last3=Bertone |first3=Matthew A. |last4=Harbach |first4=Ralph E. |last5=Wiegmann |first5=Brian M. |last6=Besansky |first6=Nora J. |title=Phylogenetic analysis and temporal diversification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) based on nuclear genes and morphology |journal=[[BMC Evolutionary Biology]] |volume=9 |issue=1 |date=2009 |page=298|pmid=20028549 |pmc=2805638 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-9-298 |bibcode=2009BMCEE...9..298R |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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|label1='''Culicidae'''
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   |1=basal spp.
   |2={{clade
      |label1=[[Anophelinae]] 
      |1=[[File:Anopheles gambiae mosquito feeding 1354.p lores.jpg|125px]]
      |label2=[[Culicinae]] 
      |2={{clade
         |1=other spp.
         |2={{clade
            |1=[[Aedini]] [[File:Aedes aegypti feeding (cropped).jpg|125px]]
            |2={{clade
               |1=other spp.
               |2=[[Sabethini]] [[File:Sabethes albiprivus (cropped).jpg|125px]]
               }}
            }}
         }}
      }}
   }}
}}