Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Synonym: Culicoides abdominalis Statz 1944 [replaced name]

Full reference: A. Borkent and W. W. Wirth. 1997. Taxonomic names, in World species of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratpogonidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 233:1-257

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

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Statz 1944

Sister taxa: Culicoides (Groganomyia), Culicoides (Oecacta), Culicoides abbreviatipennis, Culicoides agamus, Culicoides ambericus, Culicoides annosus, Culicoides antilleanus, Culicoides atratus, Culicoides austerus, Culicoides balticus, Culicoides bicolor, Culicoides bifidus, Culicoides brisaci, Culicoides brodzinskyi, Culicoides bullus, Culicoides canadensis, Culicoides casei, Culicoides ceranowiczi, Culicoides dasyheleiformis, Culicoides doyeni, Culicoides elongatulus, Culicoides eoselficus, Culicoides filipalpis, Culicoides gedanensis, Culicoides gracilior, Culicoides grandibocus, Culicoides hispanicola, Culicoides jucundus, Culicoides kaluginae, Culicoides liliputanus, Culicoides mammalicola, Culicoides megacanthus, Culicoides obesus, Culicoides obscuratus, Culicoides obuncus, Culicoides paleopestis, Culicoides prussicus, Culicoides speciosus, Culicoides sphenostylus, Culicoides subgedanensis, Culicoides succineus, Culicoides succivarius, Culicoides tenuipennis, Culicoides truncatus, Culicoides tyrrelli, Culicoides yoosti

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rott (Statz Collection) (Oligocene of Germany)

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