Bezzia eocenica Szadziewski 1988 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283

Belongs to Bezzia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxon: Bezzia longipennis

Type specimen: MZW 16584, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Poland (1), Ukraine (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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