Biology:Culex damnatorum
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Short description: Extinct species of mosquito
| Culex damnatorum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Culex |
| Species: | †C. damnatorum
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| Binomial name | |
| †Culex damnatorum Scudder, 1890
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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
- ↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. (March 1919). "The Oldest Mosquitoes" (in en). Nature 103 (2577): 44. doi:10.1038/103044b0. ISSN 1476-4687. Bibcode: 1919Natur.103...44C. https://www.nature.com/articles/103044b0.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Scudder, Samuel (1890). Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America. Government Printing Office.
Wikidata ☰ Q136440113 entry
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