Culiseta, Felt, 1904

Giłka, Wojciech, Harbach, Ralph E. & Perkovsky, Evgeny E., 2021, Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Eocene amber from the Rovno region, Ukraine, Zootaxa 5016 (2), pp. 257-270 : 266

Culiseta

Interestingly, among a number of arthropod syninclusions in the large piece of amber with the specimen of Culiseta gedanica , a mammalian hair was found ( Fig. 6 ). The presence of adults of both sexes of the studied mosquito, including a hematophagous female in the same place and time seems to be highly probable, as does the co-occurrence of the mosquito with the hair of a mammal, the potential host. Although the structure of the hair is not sufficiently specific to determine a particular mammal (being similar to that known from different systematic groups of these animals), the shape of the scales and their arrangement are the characters that may be interpreted as advanced, typical of several extant taxa (J. N. Izdebska, pers. comm.).

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FIGURE 6. The mammalian hair—the syninclusion of the examined specimen of Culiseta gedanica.