Minyohelea Borkent 1995 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonym: Lebanoconops Szadziewski 1996

Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237

Parent taxon: Leptoconopinae according to A. Pielowska-Ceranowska et al. 2022

See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1996

Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops, Austroconops, Baskintoconops, Fossileptoconops, Jordanoconops, Leptoconops

Subtaxa: Minyohelea bacula Minyohelea casca Minyohelea falcata Minyohelea lebanica Minyohelea minuta Minyohelea nexuosa Minyohelea pumilis Minyohelea schleei Minyohelea wirthi

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Type: Minyohelea pumilis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Canada (2: Alberta), Lebanon (6)

Total: 9 collections including 17 occurrences

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