Culex winchesteri Cockerell, 1919

Culicidae Classification

Culicidae Classification (2)

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Edited by Ralph Harbach on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 22:22

Age:

Cenozoic, Tertiary, Eocene (33.9-55.8 Mya).

Type data:

Holotype ♀, Smith Ranch, near Cathedral Bluffs, Colorado, USA (compression / impression).

Depository:

National Museum of Natural History, Simthsonian Instituion, Washington DC, USA.

Note:

Edwards (1932) noted that this mosquito is "Perhaps a true Culex".