Adelohelea burmitica Szadziewski and Poinar 2005 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combinations: Adelohelea burmiticus, Archiculicoides burmiticus, Protoculicoides burmiticus

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and G. O. Poinar. 2005. Additional biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Burmese amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:349-362

Belongs to Adelohelea according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020

See also Borkent 2013, Borkent 2019, Szadziewski 2018, Szadziewski et al. 2016 and Szadziewski and Poinar 2005

Sister taxa: Adelohelea glabra, Adelohelea magyarica

Type specimen: OSU In. C-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)

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