Ceratopogon eminens Meunier 1904 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

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 Ceratopogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Grogan 1995, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Meunier 1904, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon bitterfeldi, Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, 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: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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