Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Chimaerohelea nielseni
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Meunierohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Meunierohelea anglesensis, Meunierohelea borkenti, Meunierohelea cambayana, Meunierohelea fudalai, Meunierohelea gedanicola, Meunierohelea miocaenica, Meunierohelea orientalis, Meunierohelea wirthi
Type specimen: ZMC 17, an exoskeleton. 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 (1), Poland (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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