†Burmaculex antiquus Borkent and Grimaldi 2004 (mosquito)
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Full reference: A. Borkent and D. A. Grimaldi. 2004. The earliest fossil mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae), in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97(5):882-888
Belongs to Burmaculex according to A. Borkent and D. A. Grimaldi 2016
See also Borkent and Grimaldi 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH Bu-032, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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