Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86
Parent taxon: Leptoconopinae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Choufani et al. 2015, Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2011, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Austroconops, Baskintoconops, Fossileptoconops, Jordanoconops, Leptoconops, Minyohelea
Subtaxa: Archiaustroconops alavensis Archiaustroconops andersoni Archiaustroconops annae Archiaustroconops besti Archiaustroconops bocaparvus Archiaustroconops borkenti Archiaustroconops ceratoformis Archiaustroconops cretaceous Archiaustroconops dominiakae Archiaustroconops gracilis Archiaustroconops hammanensis Archiaustroconops hamus Archiaustroconops kotejai Archiaustroconops szadziewskii
Type: Archiaustroconops ceratoformis
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Ecuador (1 collection), Jordan (1), Lebanon (8), Myanmar (2), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 15 collections including 30 occurrences
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