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A male mosquito (species unidentified), one of over 1,200 species from the genus Culex, in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania. Several Culex species serve as vectors of important diseases, such as West Nile virus, filariasis, Japanese encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis and avian malaria.Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim