Serromyia polonica 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 Serromyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Bissett 1990, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1988 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Serromyia alphea, Serromyia anomalicornis, Serromyia errata, Serromyia ryszardi, Serromyia sinuosa, Serromyia spinigera, Serromyia succinea

Type specimen: MZW 14977, 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)

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