Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Alternative combinations: Amberaspinus orientales, Amberaspinus orientalus, Aspinus orientalus, Succinaspinus orientales
Full reference: Y. C. Hong. 1981. Eocene Fossil Diptera Insecta in Amber of Fushun Coalfield 1-166
Belongs to Forcipomyia according to A. Borkent and P. Dominiak 2020
See also Evenhuis 1994, Hong 1981, Hong 2002, Hong 2002 and Szadziewski 2019
Sister taxa: Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia), Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia), Forcipomyia (Lasiohelea), Forcipomyia (Lepidohelea), Forcipomyia (Phytohelea), Forcipomyia (Synthyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Thyridomyia), Forcipomyia (Trichohelea), Forcipomyia eobreviflagellata, Forcipomyia krzeminskii, Forcipomyia kulickae, Forcipomyia nadicola
Type specimen: GMB IV10163, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Xilutian coal mine, Fushun amber (late 1970s collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in China.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Xilutian coal mine, Fushun amber (late 1970s collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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