Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Leptoconops sibiricus

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86

Belongs to Leptoconops (Leptoconops) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) burmiticus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) clava, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) curvachelus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) daugeroni, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) gravesi, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) myanmaricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rossi, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rovnensis, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) subrossicus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) succineus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini

Type specimen: PIN 3311/416, an exoskeleton

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)

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