Serromyia sinuosa Borkent 1990 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 1990. Taxonomic names, in A revision of the Holarctic species of Serromyia Meigen (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Systematic Entomology 15:153-217

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

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

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

Type specimen: MZ 14972, 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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