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Neoculicites depereti (Meunier, 1915) (originally Culicites)

Edited by Ralph Harbach on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 23:05
Age: 

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

Type data: 

Holotype ♀, Aix en Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (compression / impression).

Depository: 

Laboratoire de Géologie, Université de Lyon, Lyon , France.

Note: 

Originally placed in genus Culicites Meunier, 1915 (non von Heyden, 1862); automatically transferred to genus Neoculicites with replacement of the preoccupied name by Evenhuis (1994). The fossilised specimen is a ‘typical Culicine mosquito' (Edwards, 1923).

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