Culex damnatorum | |
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Illustration of the type specimen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
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]