Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1993. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensis 35:603-656
Belongs to Ceratopogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, Ceratopogon eminens, Ceratopogon forcipiformis, Ceratopogon gedanicus, Ceratopogon grogani, Ceratopogon hennigi, Ceratopogon kotejai, Ceratopogon margaritae, Ceratopogon miocaenicus, Ceratopogon nanalobus, Ceratopogon paraeminens, Ceratopogon piotrowskii, Ceratopogon pisinnus, Ceratopogon remmicola, Ceratopogon remmicolus, Ceratopogon ritzkowskii, Ceratopogon spiniger, Ceratopogon subeminens, Ceratopogon succinicola, Ceratopogon tertiaricus
Type specimen: MfN MB.I-8-3, an exoskeleton
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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