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Losquitoes belong oo the family Culicidae. The adults can be recognised 
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from other flies by the characteristic moutapart that 
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color and pattern of the scales of the various, parts of the body are of prime 
importance for taxonomic reasons. 
The female moscuito can be readily differentiated from the male by noting 
the formation of the antennae. While the whorl of hairs 
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female are very short, while in the male they are ion- 
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for copulation and they demonstrate good characters for separating species. 
