Burmaculex

{{Short description|Extinct genus of insect}}

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| fossil_range = Cretaceous, {{Fossil range|earliest=95|95}}

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| genus = Burmaculex

| parent_authority = Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004

| species = antiquus

| authority = Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = *B. edwardsi

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Burmaculex is an extinct monotypic genus of mosquito found fossilised in Burmese amber dating from the Cretaceous period, believed to date from 95 million years ago.{{cite news |last1=Quentin D. Wheeler |title=New to nature No 95: Culiseta lemniscata |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/dec/16/new-to-nature-culiseta-lemniscata |access-date=23 July 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=6 December 2012|author1-link=Quentin D. Wheeler }} The genus and species were described in 2004 by Art Borkent and David A. Grimaldi.{{cite journal |title=The Earliest Fossil Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae), in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber |journal=Annals of the Entomological Society of America |date=1 September 2004 |volume=97 |issue=5 |pages=882–888 |doi=10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0882:TEFMDC]2.0.CO;2 |last1=Borkent |first1=Art |last2=Grimaldi |first2=David A. |s2cid=85738337 |doi-access=free }}

Cladogram after Azar et al. (2023):{{Cite journal |last=Azar |first=Dany |last2=Nel |first2=André |last3=Huang |first3=Diying |last4=Engel |first4=Michael S. |date=December 2023 |title=The earliest fossil mosquito |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223014483 |journal=Current Biology |language=en |volume=33 |issue=23 |pages=5240–5246.e2 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.047|doi-access=free }}

{{clade

|1=Corethrellidae

|2=Chaoboridae

|3={{clade

|1=†Libanoculex intermedius (Lebanese amber)

|2={{clade

|1=†Burmaculex antiquus Borkent & Grimaldi, 2004 (Burmese amber)

|2=Crown Culicidae}} }} }}