Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86

Parent taxon: Leptoconopinae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1996

Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops, Austroconops, Baskintoconops, Jordanoconops, Leptoconops, Minyohelea

Subtaxa: Fossileptoconops lebanicus

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Type: Fossileptoconops lebanicus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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