Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Brachypogon (Isohelea) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Brachypogon (Isohelea) dominicanus, Brachypogon (Isohelea) henningseni, Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominuloides, Brachypogon (Isohelea) prominulus
Type specimen: IZPAN 41/73, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Zoological Museum, PAN, Warsaw collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Zoological Museum, PAN, Warsaw collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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