†Adelohelea glabra Borkent 1995 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237
Belongs to Adelohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Adelohelea burmitica, Adelohelea magyarica
Type specimen: CAS 530, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (CNC 1963 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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