Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: W. Giłka. 2010. A new species group in the genus Tanytarsus van der Wulp (Diptera: Chironomidae) based on a fossil record from Baltic amber. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4):714-719
Belongs to Tanytarsus according to M. Zakrzewska et al. 2016
See also Giłka 2010, Giłka and Zakrzewska 2013 and Giłka and Zakrzewska 2015
Sister taxa: Tanytarsus congregabilis, Tanytarsus crocota, Tanytarsus fereci, Tanytarsus forfex, Tanytarsus glaesarius, Tanytarsus insularis, Tanytarsus maritimus, Tanytarsus protogregarius, Tanytarsus ramus, Tanytarsus szadziewskii, Tanytarsus wulpii
Type specimen: MAI 5157a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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