Spinaculex
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Name:
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Spinaculex
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Abilities and Weapons:
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flight, proboscis
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Occupation:
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Pursuit forager
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Home:
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Skull Island
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First Appearance:
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"The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (from 2005)
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Diet:
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Haemovore
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Size:
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Length: 5 centimeters
Weight Estimated: 120 milligrams |
Status:
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Unknown. Presumably rescued by expeditions.
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The brilliant red Spinaculex, (meaning "needle-gnat"), is a giant mosquito and is closely related to Mortaspis.
Facts[]
Spinaculex had tall spines and a bulbous thorax and could expand to accommodate the life fluids it drew from the flesh of dinosaurs with its hypodermic mouthparts.
Growing almost two inches long (5 centimeters), the drone of its wings maddened Ligocristus young in their island nurseries in the hot months when vast clouds of the vampiric insects rose out of the swamps to plague them.
Trivia[]
- Like all animals from Skull Island. It is unknown what they faced during the sinking of the island. Given the multiple expeditions, there may be a chance that a few surviving populations was saved off-land to a more stable enclosure.