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)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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