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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