Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 2000. Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous New Jersey amber. Studies on Fossils in Amber, with Particular Reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey 453-472

Belongs to Culicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Culicoides (Groganomyia), Culicoides (Oecacta), Culicoides abbreviatipennis, Culicoides agamus, Culicoides ambericus, Culicoides annosus, Culicoides antilleanus, Culicoides atratus, Culicoides austerus, Culicoides balticus, Culicoides bicolor, Culicoides bifidus, Culicoides brisaci, Culicoides brodzinskyi, Culicoides bullus, Culicoides canadensis, Culicoides casei, Culicoides ceranowiczi, Culicoides dasyheleiformis, Culicoides doyeni, Culicoides elongatulus, Culicoides eoselficus, Culicoides filipalpis, Culicoides gedanensis, Culicoides gracilior, Culicoides grandibocus, Culicoides hispanicola, Culicoides jucundus, Culicoides kaluginae, Culicoides liliputanus, Culicoides mammalicola, Culicoides megacanthus, Culicoides obesus, Culicoides obscuratus, Culicoides obuncus, Culicoides paleopestis, Culicoides prussicus, Culicoides speciosus, Culicoides sphenostylus, Culicoides subgedanensis, Culicoides succineus, Culicoides succivarius, Culicoides tenuipennis, Culicoides tyrrelli, Culicoides ventralis, Culicoides yoosti

Type specimen: AMNH NJ-140, 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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