†Mantohelea gedanica Szadziewski 1988 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Mantohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Mantohelea laca, Mantohelea sinica
Type specimen: MZW 10026, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Poland (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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