Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Protoculicoides ciliatus
Full reference: A. Borkent. 2012. Further biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Canadian Cretaceous amber. The Canadian Entomologist 144:758-766
Belongs to Atriculicoides according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2012, Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Atriculicoides cenomanensis, Atriculicoides dasyheleis, Atriculicoides globosus, Atriculicoides hispanicus, Atriculicoides incompletus, Atriculicoides macrophthalmus, Atriculicoides sanjusti, Atriculicoides sibiricus, Atriculicoides swinhoei, Atriculicoides szadziewskii, Atriculicoides taimyricus
Type specimen: CNCI CAS 1231, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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