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Burmaculex is an extinct genus 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] although Libanoculex is later confirmed as member of Chaoboridae and not a mosquito.[4]

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. Retrieved 23 July 2022.
  2. ^ a b 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:TEFMDC]2.0.CO;2. S2CID 85738337.
  3. ^ Azar, Dany; Nel, André; Huang, Diying; Engel, Michael S. (December 2023). “The earliest fossil mosquito”. Current Biology. 33 (23): 5240–5246.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047.
  4. ^ Harbach, Ralph E. (2024-03-12). “Libanoculex intermedius is not a mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae): It is a chaoborid (Chaoboridae)”. Zootaxa. 5424 (1): 139–144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5424.1.9. ISSN 1175-5334.