Culex vs Anopheles - What's the difference?

As proper nouns the difference between culex and anopheles

is that culex is while anopheles is .

(wikipedia culex) (wikispecies)

(culices)

(biology) Any of various mosquitoes of the genus Culex , some of which carry disease

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(wikipedia anopheles) (wikispecies)

(es)

(entomology) A member of the Anopheles genus of mosquitos, which can carry the parasite which causes malaria.

* 1983 , (Lawrence Durrell), Sebastian , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1125:

‘I brought it back from the desert – they have been planting rice like fools, and now you get anopheles right up to the gates of Alexandria!’