Protoculicoides revelatus Borkent 2019 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Full reference: A. Borkent. 2019. The phylogenetic relationships of Cretaceous biting midges, with a key to all known genera (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3921:1-48

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

See also Borkent 2019

Sister taxon: Protoculicoides depressus

Type specimen: KU-NHM-ENT Bu-055, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (SEMC Kansas coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (SEMC Kansas coll)

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