Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Johannsenomyia swinhoei, Protoculicoides swinhoei
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1919. Insects in Burmese amber. The Entomologist 52:241-243
Belongs to Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Cockerell 1919, Ross and York 2000, Szadziewski 2004, Szadziewski 2018, Szadziewski et al. 2016 and Szadziewski and Poinar 2005
Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus
Type specimen: BMNH In.19133, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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