†Paicheleria magnifica Azar and Nel 2010 (non biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: D. Azar and A. Nel. 2010. Two new non-biting midges from the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Diptera: Chironomidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46:198-203
Belongs to Paicheleria according to D. Azar and A. Nel 2010
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Azar 221, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
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