Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Protoculicoides dasyheleis
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 Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides ciliatus, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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