Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Archiculicoides succineus, Protoculicoides succineus
Full reference: R. Szadziewski. 1996. Biting midges from Lower Cretaceous amber of Lebanon and Upper Cretaceous Siberian amber of Taimyr (Dipera, Ceratopogonidae). Studia Dipterologica 3:23-86
Belongs to Gerontodacus according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2000, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Borkent and Wirth 1997, Szadziewski 1996, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Gerontodacus krzeminskii, Gerontodacus punctus, Gerontodacus skalskii
Type specimen: SMNS C31/14, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Jezzine (SMNS collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Lebanon (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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