Mosquitoes are not a parasite since they don't need to live on their host to survive.
Parasites typically need to live on or in their hosts to survive and a mosquito does not.
Mosquitoes are not parasite.
They belong to phylum arthropoda hence they are insects.
Parasites are living creatures which need a host for its life cycle.
The female mosquito is not considered a parasite, although it needs our blood for reproduction.
The parasite leaves in or on the host and obtains support, nutrients, and other components that may even cause disease or death of the host.
Without a host, a parasite cannot live, grow, and multiply.
Female Anopheles mosquitoes are the definitive hosts of Plasmodium parasites, the causative agents of malaria.
Mosquitoes become infected when they ingest a blood meal from a human carrying Plasmodium gametocytes, the sexual-stage parasite cells responsible for malaria parasite transmission.