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 Minyohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Minyohelea bacula, Minyohelea casca, Minyohelea lebanica, Minyohelea minuta, Minyohelea nexuosa, Minyohelea pumilis, Minyohelea schleei, Minyohelea wirthi
Type specimen: AMNH L-AE103, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Bchare Mountain (AMNH collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Bchare Mountain (AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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