Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: F. Stebner and R. Szadziewski. 2017. Taxonomic names, in Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Cambay amber indicate that the Eocene fauna of the Indian subcontinent was not isolated. PLoS One 12(1):e0169144

Belongs to Eohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Stebner and Szadziewski 2017

Sister taxa: Eohelea fossicola, Eohelea gedanica, Eohelea grogani, Eohelea miocaenea, Eohelea petrunkevitchi, Eohelea sakhalinica, Eohelea sinuosa

Type specimen: AMNH IN-Tad-855, 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)

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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.