Culicoides (Groganomyia) bojarskii Szadziewski and Dominiak 2019 (biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae

Alternative combination: Culicoides bojarskii

Full reference: R. Szadziewski and P. Dominiak. 2019. Taxonomic names, in Haematophagous biting midges of the extant genus Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) evolved during the mid-Cretaceous. Zootaxa 4688:535-548

Belongs to Culicoides (Groganomyia) according to R. Szadziewski and P. Dominiak 2019

See also Borkent and Dominiak 2020

Sister taxa: Culicoides (Groganomyia) burmiticus, Culicoides (Groganomyia) ellenbergeri, Culicoides (Groganomyia) myanmaricus

Type specimen: NIGP171164, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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