Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonym: Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) succinea Szadziewski 1993 [replaced name]

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and W. L. Grogan. 1998. Biting midges from Dominican amber. III. Species of the tribes Culicoidini and Ceratopogonini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Insecta Mundi 12:39-52

Belongs to Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1998

Sister taxa: Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) dominicana, Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) falcata, Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) kutscheri, Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) saxonica, Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) veterana

Type specimens:

• Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) wirthicola: MfN MBI-8-87, an exoskeleton
• Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) succinea: MfN MBI-8-87, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection) (Eocene of Germany)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.