Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: J. Choufani, V. Perrichot, D. Azar and A. Nel. 2014. New biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber. Paleontological Contributions 10:34-40
Belongs to Leptoconops (Leptoconops) according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Choufani et al. 2014 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Leptoconops (Leptoconops) boreus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) burmiticus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) clava, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) copiosus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) curvachelus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) daugeroni, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) ellenbergeri, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) myanmaricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) nosopheris, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) primaevus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rossi, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) rovnensis, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) sibiricus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) subrossicus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) succineus, Leptoconops (Leptoconops) zherikhini
Type specimen: IGR.GAR-72.1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is La Robinière (La Garnache 1), Vendée amber, which is in a Turonian terrestrial amber in France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at La Robinière (La Garnache 1), Vendée amber
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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