Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and A. Arillo. 1998. Biting midges (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) from the lower Cretaceous Amber from Alava, Spain. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67:291-298

Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Arillo 1998

Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops andersoni, Archiaustroconops annae, Archiaustroconops besti, Archiaustroconops bocaparvus, Archiaustroconops borkenti, Archiaustroconops ceratoformis, Archiaustroconops cretaceous, Archiaustroconops dominiakae, Archiaustroconops gracilis, Archiaustroconops hammanensis, Archiaustroconops hamus, Archiaustroconops kotejai, Archiaustroconops szadziewskii

Type specimen: MCNA-8836.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Peñacerrada outcrop I

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