A mosque is an Islamic place of worship. A story which has been circulating suggests that the word mosque is synonymous with mosquito, mosque being the Spanish version of the word. Infact, the Spanish word for mosquito is mosquito. During the era of Muslim rule in Spain, the Spanish speaking community used the words mosquito (for mosquito, the insect) and mesquita (mosque, place of worship).

Mosquitoes belong to the class: insecta, order: diptera, suborder: nematocera, infraorder: culicomorpha, superfamily: culicoidea and family: culicidae.

The classification system for general mosquitoes is as follows. The kingdom is Animalia, the phylum Arthropoda, the class Insecta, the order Diptera, the suborder Nematocera, the infraorder Culicomorpha, the superfamily Culicoidea, and the family Culicidae.

The seven levels of classification are; kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. For mosquitoes these are; Animalia, arthropoda, insecta, diptera, nematocera, culicomorpha, culicoidea and culicidae.