Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: F. Stebner, R. Szadziewski, P. T. Rühr, H. Singh, J. U. Hammel, G. M. Kvifte, and J. Rust. 2017. Corrigendum: A fossil biting midge (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from early Eocene Indian amber with a complex pheromone evaporator. Scientific Reports 7(41899):1
Belongs to Camptopterohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Stebner et al. 2016, Stebner et al. 2017 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH Tad-859a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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