Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: M. W. Boesel. 1937. Order Diptera, Family Chironomidae, in Insects and arachnids from Canadian amber. University of Toronto Studies in Geology 40:44-55
Belongs to Protoculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Boesel 1937, Borkent 1995, Borkent 2012, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Protoculicoides revelatus
Type specimen: ROM 6, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta, Manitoba collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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