†Alautunmyia elongata Borkent 1996 (biting midge)
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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 New Jersey amber, 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 New Jersey amber, White Oaks Pit (Old Crossman's Clay Pits)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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