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 Leptoconops (Leptoconops) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) burmiticus, 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

Type specimen: SMNS UB-1-WK-1, an exoskeleton (adult male). Its type locality is Ajka amber (SMNS collection), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in Hungary.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Ajka amber (SMNS collection)

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