''Skusea'' is a
mosquito genus (or a subgenus of ''
Aedes'') in the family
Culicidae
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 "litt ...
. Before the reclassification of aedine genera,
["Reinert JF, Harbach RE, Kitching IJ. 2004. Phylogeny and classification of Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) based on morphological characters of all life stages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142: 289–368"] ''Skusea pembaensis'' was known as ''Aedes pembaensis''.
See also
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List of mosquito genera
References
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Mosquito genera
Aedini
Taxa named by Frederick Vincent Theobald
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