Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Protoculicoides szadziewskii
Full reference: R. Pérez-de la Fuente, X. Delclòs, E. Peñalver and A. Arillo. 2011. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Early Cretaceous El Soplao amber (N Spain). Cretaceous Research 32:750-761
Belongs to Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2011, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides taimyricus
Type specimen: ES-07-12, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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