Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Dasyhelea (Sebessia) dominicana
Full reference: R. Szadziewski and W. L. Grogan. 1998. Biting midges from Dominican amber. IV. Species of the tribes Dasyheleini and Forcipomyiini (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67:255-290
Belongs to Dasyhelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1998
Sister taxa: Dasyhelea antilleana, Dasyhelea antiqua, Dasyhelea browneae, Dasyhelea dara, Dasyhelea eodicryptoscenica, Dasyhelea gedanica, Dasyhelea hispaniolae, Dasyhelea judithae, Dasyhelea kanakoffi, Dasyhelea minuticola, Dasyhelea miocaenica, Dasyhelea stanislavi, Dasyhelea stenoceras
Type specimen: FSCA 650, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Florida State Collection of Arthropods), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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