Ceratopalpomyia eocenica 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 Ceratopalpomyia 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: ZMC 233, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection)

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