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Neoculicites ceyx (von Heyden, 1870) (originally Culex)

Edited by Ralph Harbach on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 23:02
Age: 

Cenozoic, Tertiary, Late Oligocene (23.0-28.4 Mya).

Type data: 

Holotype ♀, Rott, near Meissner, Germany (compression / impression).

Depository: 

Location unknown.

Note: 

The species, originally placed in genus Culex, was transferred to genus Culicites by Meunier (1915); automatically transferred to genus Neoculicites with replacement of the preoccupied name by Evenhuis (1994). Possibly an ‘Aedes' sensu auctorum (Edwards, 1923).

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