†Fossihelea miocaenica Szadziewski 1993 (biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1993. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensis 35:603-656
Belongs to Fossihelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxon: Fossihelea gracilitarsis
Type specimen: MfN MB.I-8-140, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Ukraine (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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