Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: J. Choufani, D. Azar, and A. Nel. 2015. New biting midges from the Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50:272-285
Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Choufani et al. 2015 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops alavensis, Archiaustroconops andersoni, Archiaustroconops annae, Archiaustroconops besti, Archiaustroconops bocaparvus, Archiaustroconops borkenti, Archiaustroconops ceratoformis, Archiaustroconops cretaceous, Archiaustroconops dominiakae, Archiaustroconops gracilis, Archiaustroconops hamus, Archiaustroconops kotejai, Archiaustroconops szadziewskii
Type specimen: Azar 226, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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