Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Synonym: Ceratopogon defectus Meunier 1904
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, Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1904, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon bitterfeldi, Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, Ceratopogon eminens, 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 specimens:
- Ceratopogon forcipiformis: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
- Ceratopogon defectus: 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), Germany (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (2)
Total: 8 collections including 9 occurrences
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