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 Adelohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1997, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Adelohelea burmitica, Adelohelea glabra
Type specimen: SMNS UB-1-WK-2, 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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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