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) lyneborgi, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) rasnitsyni, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) subgedanicola, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) turbinata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) unculiformis

Type specimen: MfN MBI 136, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Humboldt Museum Kühl collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Humboldt Museum Kühl collection

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