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: Leptoconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani et al. 2014, Pielowska et al. 2018, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Leptoconops (Palaeoconops), Leptoconops oisensis
Subtaxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) burmiticus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) clava Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) curvachelus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) daugeroni Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri Leptoconops (Leptoconops) gravesi Leptoconops (Leptoconops) myanmaricus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rossi Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rovnensis Leptoconops (Leptoconops) sibiricus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) subrossicus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) succineus Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (5: Alberta, Manitoba), France (2), Hungary (1), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), United States (2: New Jersey)
Total: 21 collections including 27 occurrences