†Fossihelea gracilitarsis Meunier 1904 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Ceratopogon gracilitarsis
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 Fossihelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Meunier 1904, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxon: Fossihelea miocaenica
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (1)
Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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