Culex damnatorum

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Culex damnatorum
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Illustration of the type specimen
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Culex
Species:
C. damnatorum
Binomial name
Culex damnatorum
Scudder, 1890

Culex damnatorum is an extinct species of mosquito belonging to the genus Culex, living 33.9-56 million years ago during the Cenozoic and Eocene. [1] It is known from three female specimens collected in Green River, Wyoming. [2]

The body of C. damnatorum is 6 mm in length, the thorax being 1.8 mm. Antennae are 2 mm and the stout proboscis is 1.9 mm. [2]

References

  1. Cockerell, T. D. A. (March 1919). "The Oldest Mosquitoes". Nature. 103 (2577): 44. Bibcode:1919Natur.103...44C. doi:10.1038/103044b0. ISSN   1476-4687.
  2. 1 2 Scudder, Samuel (1890). Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America. Government Printing Office.