Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon) dominicanus

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 Atrichopogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski and Grogan 1998

Sister taxa: Atrichopogon (Atrichopogon), Atrichopogon brunnescens, Atrichopogon eocenicus

Type specimen: USNM 7875, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (USNM Brodzinsky Lopez-Pena coll)

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