Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Ceratopogon lacus, Mantohelea lacus
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28:12-275
Belongs to Mantohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Meunier 1904, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Mantohelea gedanica, Mantohelea sinica
Type specimen: Hoffeins 1576-1, an exoskeleton (Male). Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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