Conchapelopia Fittkau 1957 (non biting midge)
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Insecta - Diptera - Chironomidae
Full reference: E. J. Fittkau. 1957. Thienemannimyia und Conchapelopia, zwei neue Gattungen innerhalb der Ablabesmyia-costalis-Gruppe (Diptera, Chironomidae). Chironomidenstudien VII. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 53:313-322
Parent taxon: Pentaneurini according to M. N. Krosch et al. 2022
See also Baranov and Haug 2021
Sister taxa: Ablabesmyia, Cretapelopia, Nilotanypus
Subtaxa: none
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Kishenehn (Greenwalt collection) (Eocene of Montana)
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