Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Lebanoconops wirthi

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 Minyohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Minyohelea bacula, Minyohelea casca, Minyohelea falcata, Minyohelea lebanica, Minyohelea minuta, Minyohelea nexuosa, Minyohelea pumilis, Minyohelea schleei

Type specimen: SMNS C25/13, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection)

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