Neoculicites
| Neoculicites | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Subfamily: | Culicinae |
| Genus: | †Neoculicites Evenhuis, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| Neoculicites depereti (Meunier, 1915) | |
| Species | |
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Neoculicites is a genus of extinct mosquitoes.[1][2][3] The fossil specimens are N. arverensis and N. depereti from France, and N. ceyx from Germany, all of which are from the Oligocene.[1][3] The quality of the specimens was extremely poor, being described as "worthless, barely preserved remnants which were recognised as mosquitoes".[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Harbach, Ralph (2024-10-28). "Genus Neoculicites Evenhuis, 1994". Mosquito Taxonomic Inventory.
- ↑ "Neoculicites". PaleoBio Database.
- 1 2 Evenhuis, N. L. (1994). Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera). p. 234. ISBN 90-73348-28-5.
- ↑ Szadziewski, Ryszard (31 December 1998). "New Mosquitoes from Baltic Amber" (PDF). Polish Journal of Entomology. 67: 233–244.
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