Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Forcipomyia bifidicola
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1993. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Miocene Saxonian amber. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensis 35:603-656
Belongs to Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) eotrichoheleana, Forcipomyia (Trichohelea) succinicola
Type specimen: MKC K-6. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Kutscher Gottingen collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (Kutscher Gottingen collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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