Alautunmyia elongata Borkent 1996 (biting midge)

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 Alautunmyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 1996, Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH NJ-47, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits), which is in a Turonian delta plain amber/lignite in the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.

Ecology:

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

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