Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Ceratopogon aquilonius, Washingtonhelea aquilonia
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 Palaeobrachypogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Boesel 1937, Borkent 1995, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Palaeobrachypogon grandiforceps, Palaeobrachypogon macronyx, Palaeobrachypogon remmi, Palaeobrachypogon taimyricus, Palaeobrachypogon vetus
Type specimen: ROM 61, 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
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