Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Austroconops sibericus
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86
Belongs to Austroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Austroconops asiaticus, Austroconops borkenti, Austroconops fossilis, Austroconops gladius, Austroconops gondwanicus, Austroconops megaspinus, Austroconops perrichoti
Type specimen: PIN 3130/136, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3130), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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