Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: K. Y. Remm. 1976. Late Cretaceous biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from fossil resins of the Khatanga Depression. Paleontological Journal 10(3):344-351
Belongs to Culicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Remm 1976, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018
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 gedanensis, Culicoides gracilior, Culicoides grandibocus, Culicoides hispanicola, Culicoides jucundus, Culicoides kaluginae, Culicoides liliputanus, Culicoides mammalicola, Culicoides megacanthus, 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: PIN 3311/370, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (10: Alberta, Manitoba collections), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 12 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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