Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Meunierohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Meunierohelea anglesensis, Meunierohelea borkenti, Meunierohelea cambayana, Meunierohelea fudalai, Meunierohelea miocaenica, Meunierohelea nielseni, Meunierohelea orientalis, Meunierohelea wirthi
Type specimen: MZW 5018, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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