Burmaculex
| Burmaculex Temporal range: Cretaceous, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | † Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004 |
| Species: | †B. antiquus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Burmaculex antiquus Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004 | |
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Burmaculex is an extinct monotypic genus of mosquito found fossilised in Burmese amber dating from the Cretaceous period, believed to date from 95 million years ago.[1] The genus and species were described in 2004 by Art Borkent and David A. Grimaldi.[2]
Cladogram after Azar et al. (2023):[3]
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References
- ^ Quentin D. Wheeler (6 December 2012). "New to nature No 95: Culiseta lemniscata". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
- ^ a b Borkent, Art; Grimaldi, David A. (1 September 2004). "The Earliest Fossil Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae), in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97 (5): 882–888. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0882:TEFMDC]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85738337.
- ^ Azar, Dany; Nel, André; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S. (December 2023). "The earliest fossil mosquito". Current Biology. 33 (23): 5240–5246.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047.