Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Palaeobrachypogon taimyrica, Washingtonhelea taimyrica
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86
Belongs to Palaeobrachypogon according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2013, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996 and Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Palaeobrachypogon aquilonius, Palaeobrachypogon grandiforceps, Palaeobrachypogon macronyx, Palaeobrachypogon remmi, Palaeobrachypogon vetus
Type specimen: PIN 3311/375, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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