Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Full reference: R. Szadziewski, E. Sontag, and B. Bojarski. 2020. First record of the relict Australian genus Meunierohelea in Miocene Dominican amber (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Annales Zoologici 70:285-288
Belongs to Meunierohelea according to R. Szadziewski et al. 2020
Sister taxa: Meunierohelea anglesensis, Meunierohelea borkenti, Meunierohelea cambayana, Meunierohelea gedanicola, Meunierohelea miocaenica, Meunierohelea nielseni, Meunierohelea orientalis, Meunierohelea wirthi
Type specimen: MAIG 6267, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (MAIG collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (MAIG collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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