Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Archiaustroconops krzeminskii, Protoculicoides krzeminskii
Full reference: J. Choufani, D. Azar, and A. Nel. 2015. New biting midges from the Cretaceous amber of Lebanon (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50:272-285
Belongs to Gerontodacus according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2019, Choufani et al. 2015, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Gerontodacus punctus, Gerontodacus skalskii, Gerontodacus succineus
Type specimen: Azar 287A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
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