Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 2000. Biting midges (Ceratopogonidae: Diptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber with a discussion of the diversity and patterns found in other ambers. Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey 355-451
Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops alavensis, Archiaustroconops andersoni, Archiaustroconops annae, Archiaustroconops besti, Archiaustroconops bocaparvus, Archiaustroconops borkenti, Archiaustroconops ceratoformis, Archiaustroconops cretaceous, Archiaustroconops dominiakae, Archiaustroconops gracilis, Archiaustroconops hammanensis, Archiaustroconops hamus, Archiaustroconops kotejai
Type specimen: AMNH L-AE 45, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Bchare Mountain (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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