Ceratopogon spiniger Loew 1850 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: H. Loew. 1850. Ueber den Bernstein und die Bernsteinfauna. Programm der K. Realschule Meseritz 1850:1-44

Belongs to Ceratopogon according to F. Meunier 1904

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Bissett 1990, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Loew 1850, Sontag and Szadziewski 2011, Szadziewski 1988, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon bitterfeldi, Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, Ceratopogon eminens, Ceratopogon forcipiformis, Ceratopogon gedanicus, Ceratopogon grogani, Ceratopogon hennigi, Ceratopogon kotejai, Ceratopogon margaritae, Ceratopogon miocaenicus, Ceratopogon nanalobus, Ceratopogon paraeminens, Ceratopogon piotrowskii, Ceratopogon pisinnus, Ceratopogon remmicola, Ceratopogon remmicolus, Ceratopogon ritzkowskii, Ceratopogon subeminens, Ceratopogon succinicola, Ceratopogon tertiaricus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Berendt collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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