Priscoculex burmanicus Poinar et al. 2019 (mosquito)

Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae

Full reference: G. Poinar, T. J. Zavortink, and A. Brown. 2019. Priscoculex burmanicus n. gen. et sp. (Diptera: Culicidae: Anophelinae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Historical Biology 32:1157-1162

Belongs to Priscoculex according to G. Poinar et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar B-D-70, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)

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