Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 2013. Taxonomic names, in A new species of Forcipomyia from Paleocene Sakhalin amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology 82:59-62
Belongs to Forcipomyia according to R. Szadziewski 2018
See also Szadziewski 2013
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia), Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia), Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea), Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea), Forcipomyia (Phytohelea), Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Trichohelea), Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata, Forcipomyia krzeminskii, Forcipomyia kulickae, Forcipomyia orientalus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Sakhalin Amber (Mutnykh collection), which is in a Lutetian terrestrial amber/coal in the Naibuchi Formation of the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sakhalin Amber (Mutnykh collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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