Coquillettidia adamowiczi

Coquillettidia adamowiczi is an extinct species of mosquito within the genus Coquillettidia. It lived between 33.9 to 40.4 million years ago, in the Cenozoic and Late Eocene. It is named after Pawel Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdańsk.^[1][2]

Coquillettidia adamowiczi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Culicidae
Genus:	Coquillettidia
Species:	†C. adamowiczi
Binomial name
†Coquillettidia adamowiczi Szadziewski, Sontag et Szwedo, 2019

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]