Kimia is a
genus
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of
mosquito
Mosquitoes (or mosquitos) are members of a group of almost 3,600 species of small flies within the family Culicidae (from the Latin ''culex'' meaning " gnat"). The word "mosquito" (formed by ''mosca'' and diminutive ''-ito'') is Spanish for "li ...
es found in eastern
Asia
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.
The genus includes the following
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
:
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Kimia decorabilis''
(Leicester, 1908)
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Kimia imitata''
(Baisas, 1946)
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Kimia miyagii''
(Toma & Mogi, 2003)
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Kimia nemorosa''
(Gong, 1996)
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Kimia suchariti''
(Miyagi & Toma, 1989)
References
Insects described in 2007
Culicinae
Mosquito genera
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