Alluaudomyia succinea Szadziewski 1988 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283

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

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MZW 2353/32, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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