A subfamily of mosquitoes that includes the genus Anopheles and related genera; the group containing malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
Latin subfamily classification derived from 'Anopheles' + '-inae' (taxonomic subfamily suffix). Scientific nomenclature established in entomology in the 19th-20th century.
Anophelinae represent just one mosquito subfamily, yet they're responsible for more human deaths than all other mosquito subfamilies combined—making taxonomic classification literally life-and-death important.
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