蚊科(Culicidae)昆虫中很多种类是重要的媒介昆虫,蚊科分类研究已有200多年的发展历程。2000年以来,Harbach等人依据比较解剖学、支序分类和分子生物学技术对蚊科分类系统进行了重大修订,把蚊科类群从原来的34属修订为112属,建立了更加细分的蚊科分类系统。中国蚊虫研究近些年来也发展迅猛,蚊虫研究者对中国蚊虫属、种组及隐存种等做了大量订正,调整和新增记录,中国现已知蚊虫达46属418种。本文依据Harbach新分类系统对中国蚊科分类现状和分子分类学研究进展进行了总结,中国按蚊亚科(Anophelinae)现有1属62种,库蚊亚科(Culicinae)45属356种。由于形态分类学的局限以及在蚊科内广泛存在的隐存种,对传统蚊科分类提出了新的挑战,随着分子分类技术的发展,大量基于分子技术的研究揭示并改进了蚊虫的分类。目前仍有大量的蚊科分类和系统发育问题尚有待澄清。
Many species of Culicidae (Diptera) are important vectors of infectious diseases, and its systematics has gone forward for more than 200 years. Since the beginning of 21 century, Harbach et al. have largely revised the traditional taxonomic system of Culicidae based on comparative anatomy, cladistics and molecular systematies, and divided the Culicidae into 112 genera that traditionally gathered as 34 genera. There has been a lot of new development in mosquito systematics, including the description, record and revision of genera and species, the elucidation of cryptic species and the population genetics of a number of species with medical importance in China. So far there have been 46 genera and 418 species known in China. In the present paper, we are summarizing the new progress of systematies of Culicidae in China especially with integration of Harbach's new systematic system, the China existing 1 genues 62 species in subfamily Anophelinae and 45 genera 356 species in subfamily Culicinae. The limitation of morphological taxonomy and cryptic species widely exists posed the challenges to the traditional taxonomic system of the mosquito. With the development of molecular classification technology and largely studies based on molecular techniques had improved the classification of the mosquito. However there are still a lot of taxonomic and phylogenetics problems have to be clarified.