Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Archiculicoides skalskii, Protoculicoides skalskii
Full reference: R. Szadziewski and A. Arillo. 1998. Biting midges (Diptera : Ceratopogonidae) from the lower Cretaceous Amber from Alava, Spain. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 67:291-298
Belongs to Gerontodacus according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Arillo et al. 2008, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Pérez-de la Fuente et al. 2011, Szadziewski 2018, Szadziewski and Arillo 1998 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Gerontodacus krzeminskii, Gerontodacus punctus, Gerontodacus succineus
Type specimen: MCNA-8645, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Peñacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Spain (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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