Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Ceratopogon according to R. Szadziewski 2018
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020, Borkent and Grogan 1995, Borkent and Wirth 1997 and Szadziewski 1988
Sister taxa: Ceratopogon (Ceratopogon), Ceratopogon bitterfeldi, Ceratopogon ceranowiczi, Ceratopogon crypticus, Ceratopogon eminens, Ceratopogon forcipiformis, Ceratopogon gedanicus, Ceratopogon grogani, Ceratopogon hennigi, Ceratopogon kotejai, Ceratopogon margaritae, Ceratopogon miocaenicus, Ceratopogon nanalobus, Ceratopogon paraeminens, Ceratopogon piotrowskii, Ceratopogon pisinnus, Ceratopogon remmicola, Ceratopogon ritzkowskii, Ceratopogon spiniger, Ceratopogon subeminens, Ceratopogon succinicola, Ceratopogon tertiaricus
Type specimen: MZW 15788, 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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