Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

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 Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1998

Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) antilleana, Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) domibicolor, Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea) lepidosuccinea

Type specimen: AMNH DR-6-35, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber, El Valle locality (AMNH collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Yanigua Formation of the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber, El Valle locality (AMNH collection)

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