culex quinquefasciatus

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1. widespread tropical mosquito that transmits filarial worms (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	mosquito,
definition	:	two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	culex, genus culex,
definition	:	type genus of the Culicidae: widespread genus of mosquitoes distinguished by holding the body parallel to the resting surface (noun.animal)