Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Ceratopogon speciosus, Culicoides (Oecacta) speciosus
Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Monographie des Cecidomyidae, des Sciaridae, des Mycetophilidae et des Chironomidae de l'ambre de la Baltique. Annales de la Société Scientifique de Bruxelles 28:12-275
Belongs to Culicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Meunier 1904, Pielowska et al. 2018, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 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 filipalpis, 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 sphenostylus, Culicoides subgedanensis, Culicoides succineus, Culicoides succivarius, Culicoides tenuipennis, Culicoides truncatus, Culicoides tyrrelli, Culicoides ventralis, Culicoides yoosti
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (2)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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