†subfamily Lebanoculicoidinae Borkent 2000 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 2000. Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber with a discussion of the diversity and patterns found in other ambers. Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey 355-451

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Choufani et al. 2015, Choufani et al. 2015 and PĂ©rez-de la Fuente et al. 2011

Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae

Subtaxa: Lebanoculicoides

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Type: Lebanoculicoides

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Lebanon (4 collections), Spain (1), Syria (1)

Total: 6 collections including 7 occurrences

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