Coquillettidia adamowiczi
| Coquillettidia adamowiczi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Culicidae |
| Genus: | Coquillettidia |
| Species: | †C. adamowiczi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Coquillettidia adamowiczi Szadziewski, Sontag et Szwedo, 2019
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Coquillettidia adamowiczi is an extinct species of mosquito within the genus Coquillettidia. It lived between 33.9 and 40.4 million years ago, in the Cenozoic and Late Eocene. It is named after Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdańsk.[1][2]
The sole male specimen was found preserved in Baltic amber with a body length of 6.4 mm. It is possible that C. adamowiczi was a vector of avian malaria.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Sowiński, Mateusz (9 January 2020). "A mosquito sunk in Baltic amber was named after the Mayor of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz".
- ^ a b Szadziewski, Ryszard; Sontag, Elzbieta; Szwedo, Jacek (20 December 2019). "Mosquitoes of the extant avian malaria vector Coquillettidia Dyar, 1905 from Eocene Baltic amber (Diptera: Culicidae)". Paleoentomology. 2 (6): 650–656. Bibcode:2019Plegy...2..650S. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.6.16.