Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 2018. Biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as indicators of biostratigraphy, ecological reconstructions and identification of amber deposits. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:219-230
Belongs to Serromyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Szadziewski 2018
Sister taxa: Serromyia alphea, Serromyia anomalicornis, Serromyia polonica, Serromyia ryszardi, Serromyia sinuosa, Serromyia spinigera, Serromyia succinea
Type specimen: MfN MB.I-8-91, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Kutscher Gottingen collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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