Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Protoculicoides cenomanensis
Full reference: R. Szadziewski and T. Schlüter. 1992. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of France. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 28:73-81
Belongs to Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 2018, Szadziewski et al. 2016 and Szadziewski and Schlüter 1992
Sister taxa: Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus
Type specimen: Museum of the Earth, Warsaw Cer Ce Du 1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Durtal amber, which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Durtal amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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