Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1988
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) berendti, Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) miocaenica, Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) piriformis, Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) tuberculosa
Type specimen: ZMC 67, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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