†Furcobuchonomyia pankowskii Giłka and Zakrzewska 2017 (non biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska. 2017. A new species of the subfamily Buchonomyiinae (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber. Dipteron 33:26-33
Belongs to Furcobuchonomyia according to W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska 2017
Sister taxon: Furcobuchonomyia saetheri
Type specimen: MAIG 5949, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (MAI Gdansk coll)
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