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Psorophora

noun
Pso·roph·o·ra | \ səˈräfərə \

Definition of Psorophora 

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

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New Latin, from psor- + -phora

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