Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: F. A. A. Skuse. 1889. Diptera of Australia. Part VI. - The Chironomidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series) 4:215-312
Parent taxon: Leptoconopinae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani et al. 2014, Kieffer 1906, Pielowska et al. 2018, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1990, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski et al. 2015 and Szadziewski et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops, Austroconops, Baskintoconops, Fossileptoconops, Jordanoconops, Minyohelea
Subtaxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) Leptoconops (Palaeoconops)
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), India (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Canada (5: Alberta, Manitoba), France (3), Hungary (1), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2), United States (2: New Jersey)
Total: 26 collections including 35 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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