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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Coquillettidia Dyar, 1904 |
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Coquillettidia is a mosquito genus erected by entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904 based primarily on unique features of its "peculiar" male genitalia.[1] The specific epithet honors Dyar's colleague Daniel William Coquillett.
The genus comprises three subgenera, Austromansonia, Coquillettidia, and Rhynochotaenia, and 57 species,[2] of which Coquillettidia perturbans is perhaps the best known.
- ^ Harrison G. Dyar. 1904. Remarks on Genitalic Genera in the Culicidae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, VII(1): 42-49; 47; http://www.mosquitocatalog.org/files/pdfs/038400-1.pdf Archived 2016-02-23 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Thomas V. Gaffigan, Richard C. Wilkerson, James E. Pecor, Judith A. Stoffer and Thomas Anderson. 2016. "Coquillettidia" in Systematic Catalog of Culicidae, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, http://www.wrbu.org/generapages/coquillettidia.htm Archived 2016-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 13 Feb 2016.