Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 2012. Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Canadian Cretaceous amber. The Canadian Entomologist 144:758-766

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

See also Borkent 2012, Borkent 2013 and Szadziewski 2018

Sister taxa: Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea), Stilobezzia (Stilobezzia), Stilobezzia kurthi, Stilobezzia roggeroi

Type specimen: TMP 96.9.116, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP 96.9 accession), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (TMP 96.9 accession)

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