Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: A. Borkent. 1996. Biting Midges from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey Amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3159:1-13
Belongs to Leptoconops (Leptoconops) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 1996, Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) burmiticus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) clava, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) curvachelus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) daugeroni, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) gravesi, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) myanmaricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rossi, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rovnensis, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) sibiricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) subrossicus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) succineus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini
Type specimen: AMNH NJ-42, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Sunrise landing, East Brunswick, which is in a Turonian terrestrial amber in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of United States (2: New Jersey collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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