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Mansonia cockerelli (Edwards, 1923) (originally Taeniorhynchus ?)

Edited by Ralph Harbach on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 23:52
Age: 

Cenozoic, Tertiary, Oligocene (23.0-33.9 Mya).

Type data: 

Holotype ♀, Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight, England (compression / impression).

Depository: 

Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Note: 

This fossil species was originally provisionally placed in Taeniorhynchus (generic name suppressed International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 1959: Opinion 550). Edwards (1932) indicated that the species was ‘Probably a Mansonia' and Poinar et al. (2000) listed it as such. Evenhuis (1994) mistakenly placed it in genus Ochlerotatus, apparently because Taeniorhynchus is a synonym of that generic name.

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