Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago ...

For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the "London Underground Mosquito". Most people, including scientists, ...

A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

Culex molestus, the London Underground mosquito ... a new “human niche” that could have been “too arid” for C pipiens. Their irrigation systems may have offered breeding sites for the ...

In this new effort, the research team set out to learn more about the evolutionary history of the mosquito, which is formally known as Culex pipiens f. molestus. By collecting hundreds of samples ...

Culex pipiens f. molestus is a nasty biter that seems to enjoy subways and underground passages all around the world. It’s so fond of these spaces that the theory of it evolving underground ...