Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1990. Biting midges (Insecta: Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Sakhalin amber. Prace Muzeum Ziemi 41:77-82
Belongs to Eohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1990 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Eohelea fossicola, Eohelea gedanica, Eohelea grogani, Eohelea indica, Eohelea miocaenea, Eohelea petrunkevitchi, Eohelea sinuosa
Type specimen: PIN 3387/85, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387), which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber/coal in the Naibuchi Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sakhalin Amber (PIN collection 3387)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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