Species list, Checklist of Infraorder Culicomorpha (Mosquitoes and Midges) for Puttalam (North Western Province, Sri Lanka)

Ants	Arachnids
Bees	Beetles
Booklice	Bugs
Bumblebees	Butterflies
Cicadas	Crane flies
Dragonflies	Earwigs
Flies	Isopods
Locusts	Mantises
Mayflies	Mosquitoes
Myriapods	Net-winged
Plant-parasitic	Scorpion flies
Termites	Wasps

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INSECTOIDGERENGDARK LIGHT

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Checklist for Infraorder Culicomorpha Hennig, 1948 (Mosquitoes and Midges)
and region Puttalam (North Western Province, Sri Lanka)

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	47 87 94	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	47 87 94	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	44 75 82	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	39 70 74	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Order	Diptera Linnaeus, 1758 Flies, Gnats, Hoverflies, Mosquitoes, True flies	7 10 10	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Suborder	Nematocera Latreille, 1825 Long-horned flies, Mosquitoes, Thread-horns	3 4 4	Families Genera Species	Taxom
Infraorder	Culicomorpha Hennig, 1948 Mosquitoes and Midges	2 3 3	Families Genera Species	Taxom

List of families for Puttalam
2 Families width 3 Species

Culicidae (Meigen, 1818)	Mosquito	1	Species	Taxom
Ceratopogonidae Newman, 1834	Biting midge	2	Species	Taxom

Genera for Puttalam
3 Genera with 3 Species

Aedes Meigen, 1762	Ochlerotatus	1	Species	Taxom
Culicoides Latreille, 1981	Midge	1	Species	Taxom
Serromyia Meigen, 1982		1	Species	Taxom

Species list for Puttalam
3 Species

Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762)	⇒ Stegomyia aegypti Linnaeus, 1762
Culicoides krombeini Giles, Wirth..., 1981
Serromyia punctata Giles & Wirth, 1982

Subnodes of Culicomorpha with occurrences in Puttalam

Superfamily	Chironomoidea Newman, 1834	1 2 2	Family Genera Species	Taxom
Superfamily	Culicoidea Meigen, 1818	1 1 1	Family Genus Species	Taxom

Links, sources and further information

Culicomorpha at itis.gov
Culicomorpha at marinespecies.org