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 Meunierohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Stebner and Szadziewski 2017
Sister taxa: Meunierohelea anglesensis, Meunierohelea borkenti, Meunierohelea fudalai, Meunierohelea gedanicola, Meunierohelea miocaenica, Meunierohelea nielseni, Meunierohelea orientalis, Meunierohelea wirthi
Type specimen: AMNH IN-Tad-507, 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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