Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237
Belongs to Palaeobrachypogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 1996, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Palaeobrachypogon aquilonius, Palaeobrachypogon grandiforceps, Palaeobrachypogon macronyx, Palaeobrachypogon taimyricus, Palaeobrachypogon vetus
Type specimen: CAS 947b, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba collections), United States (1: New Jersey)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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