Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Protoculicoides macrophthalmus

Synonym: Atriculicoides squamiciliatus Remm 1976

Full reference: K. Y. Remm. 1976. Late Cretaceous biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from fossil resins of the Khatanga Depression. Paleontological Journal 10(3):344-351

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

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Remm 1976, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus

Type specimens:

• Atriculicoides macrophthalmus: PIN 3130/118, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
• Atriculicoides squamiciliatus: PIN 3130/119, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

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