Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1995. Biting Midges in the Cretaceous Amber of North America (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 1-237
Belongs to Peronehelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1995, Borkent 2012, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Peronehelea frigida, Peronehelea sibirica
Type specimen: CAS 882, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC May 1973 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Canada (8: Alberta, Manitoba collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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