Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Austroconops cretaceous
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
Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops alavensis, Archiaustroconops andersoni, Archiaustroconops annae, Archiaustroconops besti, Archiaustroconops bocaparvus, Archiaustroconops borkenti, Archiaustroconops ceratoformis, Archiaustroconops dominiakae, Archiaustroconops gracilis, Archiaustroconops hammanensis, Archiaustroconops hamus, Archiaustroconops kotejai, Archiaustroconops szadziewskii
Type specimen: SMNS C31/18, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection)
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