Biology:Burmaculex antiquus

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Short description: Extinct species of insect

Burmaculex antiquus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Culicidae
Genus: Burmaculex
Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004
Species:
B. antiquus
Binomial name
Burmaculex antiquus
Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004

Burmaculex antiquus is an extinct species 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]

Corethrellidae

Chaoboridae

Libanoculex intermedius (Lebanese amber)

Burmaculex antiquus Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004 (Burmese amber)[2]

Crown Culicidae

References

  1. Quentin D. Wheeler (6 December 2012). "New to nature No 95: Culiseta lemniscata". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/16/new-to-nature-culiseta-lemniscata. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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:TEFMDC2.0.CO;2]. 
  3. Azar, Dany; Nel, André; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S. (December 2023). "The earliest fossil mosquito" (in en). Current Biology 33 (23): 5240–5246.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223014483. 

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