Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combination: Archiculicoides andersoni
Full reference: R. Szadziewski, A. J. Ross, and W. Giłka. 2015. Further records of biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Myanmar). Cretaceous Research 52:556-561
Belongs to Archiaustroconops according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Borkent 2019, Szadziewski 2018 and Szadziewski et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Archiaustroconops alavensis, Archiaustroconops annae, Archiaustroconops besti, Archiaustroconops bocaparvus, Archiaustroconops borkenti, Archiaustroconops ceratoformis, Archiaustroconops cretaceous, Archiaustroconops dominiakae, Archiaustroconops gracilis, Archiaustroconops hammanensis, Archiaustroconops hamus, Archiaustroconops kotejai, Archiaustroconops szadziewskii
Type specimen: NMS G.2010.20.24, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (National Museums Scotland coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (National Museums Scotland coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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