Tanytarsus forfex Giłka and Zakrzewska 2020 (non biting midge)

Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae

Full reference: W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska. 2020. Taxonomic names, in Minute and diverse in fossil sticky stuff: Tanytarsini (Diptera: Chironomidae) from early Eocene Indian Cambay amber. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189:1398-1425

Belongs to Tanytarsus according to W. Giłka and M. Zakrzewska 2020

Sister taxa: Tanytarsus congregabilis, Tanytarsus crocota, Tanytarsus fereci, Tanytarsus glaesarius, Tanytarsus insularis, Tanytarsus maritimus, Tanytarsus protogregarius, Tanytarsus ramus, Tanytarsus serafini, Tanytarsus szadziewskii, Tanytarsus wulpii

Type specimen: BSIP Tad-568a, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection)

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