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 Austroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2000 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Austroconops asiaticus, Austroconops borkenti, Austroconops fossilis, Austroconops gladius, Austroconops gondwanicus, Austroconops perrichoti, Austroconops sibiricus
Type specimen: AMNH JS 221 BM 300, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (AMNH collection)
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