Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. R. Palmer. 1957. Miocene arthropods from the Mojave desert, California. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 294-G:237-280
Belongs to Culicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Palmer 1957 and Pierce 1966
Sister taxa: Culicoides (Groganomyia), Culicoides (Oecacta), Culicoides abbreviatipennis, Culicoides agamus, Culicoides ambericus, Culicoides annosus, Culicoides antilleanus, Culicoides atratus, Culicoides austerus, Culicoides balticus, Culicoides bicolor, Culicoides bifidus, Culicoides brisaci, Culicoides brodzinskyi, Culicoides bullus, Culicoides canadensis, Culicoides casei, Culicoides ceranowiczi, Culicoides dasyheleiformis, Culicoides doyeni, Culicoides elongatulus, Culicoides eoselficus, Culicoides filipalpis, Culicoides gedanensis, Culicoides gracilior, Culicoides grandibocus, Culicoides hispanicola, Culicoides jucundus, Culicoides kaluginae, Culicoides liliputanus, Culicoides mammalicola, Culicoides obesus, Culicoides obscuratus, Culicoides obuncus, Culicoides paleopestis, Culicoides prussicus, Culicoides speciosus, Culicoides sphenostylus, Culicoides subgedanensis, Culicoides succineus, Culicoides succivarius, Culicoides tenuipennis, Culicoides truncatus, Culicoides tyrrelli, Culicoides ventralis, Culicoides yoosti
Type specimen: USNM 562003, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is USGS Cenozoic 19057, Mule Canyon, Calico Hills, which is in a Hemingfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Barstow Formation of California.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (5: California collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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