Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Leptoconops subrossicus

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and G. O. Poinar. 2005. Additional biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Burmese amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:349-362

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

See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Poinar 2005

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) sibiricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) succineus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini

Type specimen: OSU In. C-12, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)

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