Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski and W. L. Grogan. 1997. Biting midges from Dominican amber. II. Species of the tribes Heteromyiini and Palpomyiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 18:254-260
Belongs to Palpomyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1997
Sister taxa: Palpomyia edwardsi, Palpomyia erikae, Palpomyia freyi, Palpomyia jantari, Palpomyia multispinosa, Palpomyia riedeli, Palpomyia ryshkoffi, Palpomyia shilo, Palpomyia succinea, Palpomyia unca
Type specimen: USNM 10073 b, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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