Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Ceratopogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Grogan 1995, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon bitterfeldi, Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, Ceratopogon eminens, Ceratopogon forcipiformis, Ceratopogon gedanicus, Ceratopogon grogani, 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: MZW 4504, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (2), Poland (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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