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 M. Zakrzewska et al. 2025
See also Baranov and Haug 2021, Harbach 2007, Meigen 1818, Pielowska et al. 2018, Szadziewski 2019 and Szadziewski and Giłka 2011
Sister taxa: Anophelinae, Burmaculicinae, Neoculicites, Paleoculicis
Subtaxa: Aedini Culicini Culisetini Mansoniini 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)
Total: 32 collections including 50 occurrences