Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski and G. O. Poinar. 2005. Additional biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Burmese amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:349-362
Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Poinar 2005
Sister taxa: 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 szadziewskii
Type specimen: OSU In. C-4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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