Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283
Belongs to Forcipomyia according to R. Szadziewski 1988
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Dominiak 2020 and Borkent and Wirth 1997
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia), Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia), Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea), Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea), Forcipomyia (Phytohelea), Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Trichohelea), Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata, Forcipomyia kulickae, Forcipomyia nadicola, Forcipomyia orientalus
Type specimen: MZW 8156, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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