Earliest-known fossil mosquito suggests males were bloodsuckers too

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Earliest-known fossil mosquito suggests males were bloodsuckers too

ScienceDaily, December 4, 2023

 

The open access paper is:

 

Dany Azar, André Nel, Diying Huang, Michael S. Engel. The earliest

fossil mosquito. Current Biology, 2023; 33 (23): 5240 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047

 

Other papers:

 

Maksoud, S., Azar, D., Granier, B. and Gèze, R., 2017. New data on the age of the Lower

Cretaceous amber outcrops of Lebanon. Palaeoworld, 26(2), pp.331-338.

 

Veltz, I., Paicheler, J.C., Maksoud, S., Gèze, R. and Azar, D., 2013. Context and

genesis of the Lebanese amberiferous palaeoenvironments at the Jurassic-

Cretaceous transition. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 6(1-2), pp.11-26.

 

More Lebnon amber papers.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.