Alternative spelling: Culiciformes
Full reference: J. W. Meigen. 1818. Systematische Beschreibung der Bekannten Europäischen Zweiflügeligen Insekten, Erster Theil 1-332
Parent taxon: Culicidae according to A. P. Amaral and A. Borkent 2025
See also Baranov and Haug 2021, Harbach 2007, Meigen 1818, Pielowska et al. 2018, Szadziewski 2019, Szadziewski and Giłka 2011 and Zakrzewska et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Anophelinae, Burmaculicinae, Neoculicites, Paleoculicis
Subtaxa: Aedini Culicini Culisetini Mansoniini Sabethini Toxorhynchitini
Type: Culex
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Brazil (1 collection), French Polynesia (1), Tanzania (1)
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Mexico (2)
• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (4)
• Eocene of India (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (3), United States (7: Colorado, Montana, Wyoming)
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)
Total: 33 collections including 51 occurrences