Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 1996. Biting Midges from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey Amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3159:1-13

Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 1996, Borkent 2013 and Borkent 2019

Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Gerontodacus, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae

Subtaxa: Alautunmyia elongata

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Type: Alautunmyia elongata

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits) (Cretaceous of New Jersey)

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