Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: M. W. Boesel. 1937. Order Diptera, Family Chironomidae, in Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber. University of Toronto Studies in Geology 40:44-55
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Boesel 1937, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Carpenter 1992, Choufani et al. 2015, Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2011, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Protoculicoides depressus Protoculicoides revelatus
Type: Protoculicoides depressus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta, Manitoba collections), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 6 collections each including a single occurrence
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