Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1993. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensis 35:603-656

Belongs to Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 1993

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) pseudomicrohelea, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) rasnitsyni, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) turbinata, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula, Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) unculiformis

Type specimen: MfN MB.I-8-105, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)

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