Atriculicoides globosus Boesel 1937 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combinations: Lasiohelea globosa, Protoculicoides globosus

Synonym: Lasiohelea cretea Boesel 1937

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 Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Boesel 1937, Borkent 1995, Borkent 1996, Borkent 2000, Borkent 2012, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus

Type specimens:

  • Atriculicoides globosus: ROM 47, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.
  • Lasiohelea cretea: ROM 36, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cedar Lake (ROM collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (8: Alberta, Manitoba collections), United States (2: New Jersey)

Total: 10 collections including 11 occurrences

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