Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Ceratopogon spinigera
Synonym: Ceratopogon elongatus Meunier 1904
Full reference: H. Loew. 1850. Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm der K. Realschule Meseritz 1850:1-44
Belongs to Serromyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Bissett 1990, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Evenhuis 1994, Meunier 1904 and Szadziewski 1988
Sister taxa: Serromyia alphea, Serromyia anomalicornis, Serromyia errata, Serromyia polonica, Serromyia ryszardi, Serromyia sinuosa, Serromyia succinea
Type specimens:
- Serromyia spinigera: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland
- Ceratopogon elongatus: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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