Psorophora

noun

Pso·​roph·​o·​ra

səˈräfərə

: a genus of large showy mosquitoes having the palpi of dissimilar length in the two sexes and the scutellum 3-lobed

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from psor- + -phora

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