Mantohelea laca Meunier 1904 (biting midge)

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

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