Northern House Mosquito
Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Hexapoda |
| Class | Insecta |
| Order | Diptera |
| Family | Culicidae |
| Genus | Culex |
| Species | Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758 |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Trogloxene
- Realm
- Terrestrial
Distribution
Range
Known from 10 counties across three states.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee
Counties
- Illinois
- Calhoun, Carroll, Henderson, Jo Daviess, Monroe, Pike
- Indiana
- Monroe
- Tennessee
- Franklin, Marion, Van Buren
Conservation and management
NatureServe
G5 Secure
National ranks
- United States
- NNR
- Canada
- N5 Secure
Subnational ranks
- Montana
- SNR Unranked
- Illinois
- SNR Unranked
- British Columbia
- S4 Apparently Secure
- Nova Scotia
- SU Unrankable
- Prince Edward Island
- S4 Apparently Secure
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- SU Unrankable
- Quebec
- SNR Unranked
- New Brunswick
- S5 Secure
- Ontario
- S5 Secure
State and federal status
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
References
- Banta, A.M. 1907. The fauna of Mayfield's Cave. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 67: 1–114. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60987.
- Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
- Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
- Peck, S.B. & Christiansen, K. 1990. Evolution and zoogeography of the invertebrate cave faunas of the Driftless Area of the upper Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 73–88. doi:10.1139/z90-012
- Webb, D.W., Taylor, S.J. & Krejca, J.K. 1993. The biological resources of Illinois caves and other subterranean environments. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 143 pp.
How to cite this account
Culex pipiens Linnaeus, 1758. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2334. https://cavebiology.org/species/culex-pipiens/ (accessed 7 September 2026).
Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.
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