Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Eohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Eohelea fossicola, Eohelea gedanica, Eohelea indica, Eohelea miocaenea, Eohelea petrunkevitchi, Eohelea sakhalinica, Eohelea sinuosa
Type specimen: MZW 14831, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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