Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1988
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eobreviflagellata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) eocostata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) fusiparamera, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) gedanicola, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) grimaldii, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) krzeminskii, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) kulickae, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) pseudomicrohelea, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) rasnitsyni, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) subgedanicola, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) turbinata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) unculiformis
Type specimen: ZMC 15, 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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