Culex
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Culex is a genus of mosquito, and is important in that several species serve as vectors of important diseases, such as West Nile virus, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis and avian malaria.
The adult mosquito can measure from Template:Convert, and morphologically has the three body parts common to insects: head, thorax, and abdomen. As a fly, it has one pair of wings.
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