Minyohelea falcata Borkent 2000 (biting midge)

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)

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