insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing

mosquitoes

(British usage) mosquito

mosquito that transmits yellow fever and dengue

striped native of Japan thriving in southwestern and midwestern United States and spreading to the Caribbean; potential carrier of serious diseases

any mosquito of the genus Anopheles

transmits the malaria parasite

mosquitoes