Atriculicoides Remm 1976 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: K. Y. Remm. 1976. Late Cretaceous biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from fossil resins of the Khatanga Depression. Paleontological Journal 10(3):344-351

Parent taxon: Atriculicoidinae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Carpenter 1992, Remm 1976, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2004, Szadziewski 2018, Szadziewski et al. 2016 and Szadziewski and Schlüter 1992

Sister taxon: Burmahelea

Subtaxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis Atriculicoides ciliatus Atriculicoides dasyheleis Atriculicoides globosus Atriculicoides hispanicus Atriculicoides incompletus Atriculicoides macrophthalmus Atriculicoides sanjusti Atriculicoides sibiricus Atriculicoides swinhoei Atriculicoides szadziewskii Atriculicoides taimyricus

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Type: Atriculicoides macrophthalmus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Alberta, Manitoba collections), France (1), Myanmar (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), United States (2: New Jersey)

Total: 20 collections including 36 occurrences

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