Dasyhelea miocaenica Szadziewski 1993 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

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

Belongs to Dasyhelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1993 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Dasyhelea antilleana, Dasyhelea antiqua, Dasyhelea browneae, Dasyhelea dara, Dasyhelea dominicana, Dasyhelea eocenica, Dasyhelea eodicryptoscenica, Dasyhelea gedanica, Dasyhelea hispaniolae, Dasyhelea judithae, Dasyhelea kanakoffi, Dasyhelea minuticola, Dasyhelea stanislavi, Dasyhelea stenoceras

Type specimen: MKC K-15, an exoskeleton. 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)

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