Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Ceratopogon sinuosus
Synonym: Eohelea stridulans Petrunkevitch 1957
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 Eohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1904, Perkovsky 2013, Petrunkevitch 1957, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1985, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Eohelea fossicola, Eohelea gedanica, Eohelea grogani, Eohelea indica, Eohelea miocaenea, Eohelea petrunkevitchi, Eohelea sakhalinica
Type specimens:
- Eohelea sinuosa: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
- Eohelea stridulans: Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (4)
Total: 13 collections including 15 occurrences
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