Chaoborus ciliatus Meunier 1904 (phantom midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chaoboridae

Alternative combination: Corethra ciliata

Full reference: F. Meunier. 1904. Sur un Corethra de l'ambre de la Baltique (Dipt.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1904:89-91

Belongs to Chaoborus according to A. Borkent 2014

See also Evenhuis 1994 and Meunier 1904

Sister taxa: Chaoborus kishenehnicus, Chaoborus rarus, Chaoborus tertiarius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Konigsberg collection

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