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
Parent taxon: Ceratopogonidae according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2019
Sister taxa: Adelohelea, Alautunmyia, Archiculicoides, Atriculicoidinae, Ceratopogon crassipalpis, Ceratopogon madagascariensis, Ceratopogon tenuipes, Ceratopogon viscatus, Ceratopogoninae, Forcipomyiinae, Heleageron, Lebanoculicoidinae, Leptoconopinae, Protoculicoides, Simulia pasithea, Simulium terribilis, Sinopogonitinae, Bezziinae
Subtaxa: Gerontodacus krzeminskii Gerontodacus punctus Gerontodacus skalskii Gerontodacus succineus
Type: Protoculicoides succineus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (6 collections), Spain (3)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence
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