Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1997. Upper and Lower Cretaceous Biting Midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) from Hungarian and Austrian Amber and the Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Australia. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 249:1-10
Belongs to Minyohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Minyohelea bacula, Minyohelea falcata, Minyohelea lebanica, Minyohelea minuta, Minyohelea nexuosa, Minyohelea pumilis, Minyohelea schleei, Minyohelea wirthi
Type specimen: SMNS OB-38-X, an exoskeleton (adult male). Its type locality is Golling, which is in a Hauterivian terrestrial amber in Austria.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Golling
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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