Alternative combinations: Mansonia cockerelli, Ochlerotatus cockerelli, Taeniorhynchus cockerelli
Full reference: F. W. Edwards. 1923. Oligocene mosquitoes in the British Museum, with a summary of our present knowledge concerning fossil Culicidae. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 79:139-155
Belongs to Coquillettidia according to R. Szadziewski 2019
See also Edwards 1923, Evenhuis 1994 and Szadziewski 1998
Sister taxon: Coquillettidia (Coquillettidia)
Type specimen: BMNH I.10106/17190, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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