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
Belongs to Austroconops 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: Austroconops asiaticus, Austroconops borkenti, Austroconops gladius, Austroconops gondwanicus, Austroconops megaspinus, Austroconops perrichoti, Austroconops sibiricus
Type specimen: SMNS C31/34, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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